Arhynchobatidae

Softnose skates
Bathyraja abyssicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Rajiformes
Berg, 1940
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Fowler, 1934

Softnose skates are a family of skates belonging to the order Rajiformes in the superorder Batoidea of rays. At least 104 species have been described, in 13 genera. Softnose skates have at times been placed in the same family as hardnose skates, but most recent authors recognize them as a distinct family.[1][2][3][4] Members of Arhynchobatidae can be distinguished from hardnose skates in having a soft and flexible snout as well as a more or less reduced rostrum.[5]

Genera

There are 13 recognized genera of softnose skates:[6]

Conservation

In 2010, Greenpeace International added the spotback skate to its seafood red list. "The Greenpeace International seafood red list is a list of fish that are commonly sold in supermarkets around the world, and which have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries."[7]

References

  1. ↑ MCEACHRAN, J.D. & DUNN, K.A. & MIYAKE, T. (1996) Interrelationships of the batoid fishes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidei). In: M.L.J. Stiassny, L.R. Parenti & G.D. Johnson, eds. Interrelationships of fishes. Academic Press, San Diego, London: 63–84, figs 1–13
  2. ↑ MCEACHRAN, J.D. & DUNN, K.A. (1998) Phylogenetic analysis of skates, a morphologically conservative clade of elasmobranches (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia, 1998 (2): 271–290
  3. ↑ EBERT, D.A. (2003) The Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras of California. University California Press, Berkeley, CA. 284 pp.
  4. ↑ LAST, P.R. & STEHMANN, M.F.W. & SÉRET, B. & WEIGMANN, S. (2016) Softnose Skates, Family Arhynchobatidae. In: Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R. de, Séret, B., Stehmann, M.F.W & Naylor, G.J.P (Eds.) Rays of the World. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne: 364–472.
  5. ↑ COMPAGNO, L.J.V. (1999) Chapter 1. Systematics and body form. pp. 1–42. In: W.C. Hamlett, ed. Sharks, skates and rays. The biology of elasmobranch fishes. Johns Hopkins Press, Maryland.
  6. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=Ds6sDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA359&dq=spiniraja&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwia06GK9KvUAhXJ54MKHXfrANcQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=arhynchobatidae&f=false
  7. ↑ Greenpeace International Seafood Red list


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