Bathyraja fedorovi
Bathyraja fedorovi, the cinnamon skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. [1]
| Cinnamon skate | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Arhynchobatidae |
| Genus: | Bathyraja |
| Species: | B. fedorovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathyraja fedorovi Dolganov, 1983 | |
Size
This species reaches a length of 73.3 cm (28.9 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Soviet ichthyologist Vladimir Vladimirovich Fedorov (1939–2011), who collected the holotype specimen.[3]
References
- Dolganov, V.N., 1985. New species of skates of the family Rajdae from the northwestern Pacific Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 25(3):121-132.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Bathyraja fedorovi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- 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.
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