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Smooth deep-sea skate

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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

  • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Brochiraja asperula". FishBase. February 2011 version.
  • Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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