Beringraja rhina

Longnose skate
A longnose skate near Santa Cruz Island in 2011
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Beringraja
Species: B. rhina
Binomial name
Beringraja rhina
(Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

The longnose skate (Beringraja rhina) is a species of skate in the family Rajidae from the northeast Pacific. It is found from the Eastern Bering Sea and Alaska to Baja California and the Gulf of California. The longnose skate is found at depths of 9–1,069 m (30–3,507 ft) and often deeper than the big skate.[2][3] The longnose skate has only recently been associated with the genus Beringraja, having been previously included in Raja until genetic evidence supported reclassification.[4][5] This issue has not be completely resolved and the scientific name "Raja rhina" is still in widespread use.[2][1]

Small longnose skate

Description

The longnose skate has an elongate snout and deeply notched pelvic fins. The longnose skate is up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. The longnose skate normally lives for 13 years.

Reproduction

The longnose skates egg case is large and smooth its also has large webbed keels on posterior and anterior margins. More about the egg case, the egg case maximum size is 15 cm (5.9 in) long and 12 cm (4.7 in) wide.

References

  1. 1 2 "Raja rhina (Longnose Skate)". Iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  2. 1 2 "Raja rhina, Longnose skate : fisheries". Fishbase.org. 2016-07-20. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  3. ↑ Duane E. Stevenson. "Field Guide to Sharks, Skates, and Ratfish of Alaska" (PDF). Nsgl.gso.uri.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  4. ↑ Last, P. R., S. Weigmann and L. Yang 2016. Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes). In: Last and Yearsley (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. 11-34.
  5. ↑ "Chondrichthyan Tree of Life". Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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