Bathyraja taranetzi, the mud skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean. [2]

Mud skate
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Species:
B. taranetzi
Binomial name
Bathyraja taranetzi
(Dolganov, 1983)
Synonyms
  • Rhinoraja taranetzi Dolganov, 1983

Size

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This species reaches a length of 70.0 cm (27.6 in).[3]

Etymology

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The fish is named in honor of Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz (1910–1941), an expert on fishes of the far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R..[4]

References

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  1. ^ Tribuzio, C.A., Ebert, D.A., Davis, C.D. & Orlov, A. (2015). "Rhinoraja taranetzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T161600A80679159. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T161600A80679159.en. Retrieved 21 December 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ McEachran, J.D. and K.A. Dunn, 1998. Phylogenetic analysis of skates, a morphologically conservative clade of elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia 1998(2):271-290.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bathyraja taranetzi". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE Fowler 1934 (Softnose Skates or Longtail Skates)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 4 May 2023.