Bathyraja taranetzi

Mud skate
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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 taranetziDolganov, 1983

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

Size

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

Etymology

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

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.
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.