Prickly deepsea skate

Prickly deepsea skate
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Brochiraja
Species: B. asperula
Binomial name
Brochiraja asperula
(Garrick & Paul, 1974)

The prickly deepsea skate, Brochiraja asperula, is a skate of the genus Brochiraja, found around New Zealand, at depths of from 200 to 1,300 m on the continental shelf. Their length is from 30 to 50 cm.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/7/2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.