Breviraja nigriventralis
| Breviraja nigriventralis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Breviraja |
| Species: | B. nigriventralis
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| Binomial name | |
| Breviraja nigriventralis McEachran & Matheson, 1985
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Breviraja nigriventralis, commonly known as the blackbelly skate, is a bathydemersal[2] species of ray in the family Rajidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, in depths of 549 – 776 meters (about 1,800 - 2,550 feet). Male blackbelly skates can grow up to 40 centimetersin length.[2]
References[]
- ^ Crysler, Z., Kyne, P.M., Navia, A.F., Lasso-Alcalá, O., Mejía-Falla, P.A. & Herman, K. (2020). "Breviraja nigriventralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T161422A124482032.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b "FishBase - Breviraja nigriventralis - McEachran & Matheson, 1985". FishBase. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- Eol.org Retrieved on February 8, 2011.
- Compagno, Leonard J. V. and Hamlett, William C., ed. (1999). Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore: USA. ISBN 0-8018-6048-2.
- McEachran, John D., and Katherine A. Dunn. (1998). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Skates, a Morphologically Conservative Clade of Elasmobranchs" (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia, vol. 1998, no. 2. pp. 271–290. ISBN/ISSN 0045-8511.M
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