Characterisation of common skate species Dipturus spp. through molecular and morphological identification

• Main Authors: Vilas-Arrondo, Nair, Fernández, José Carlos, Barreiro, Mateo, Moreno-Aguilar, Jaime, Valeiras, Julio, Velasco, Eva María, Baldó, Francisco, Pérez, Montse
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Pesquerías; Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz; fish; marine sciences; rare species; morphometry; biodiversity; Las Palmas; Common skate; Dipturus batis; Dipturus nidarosiensis; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/16082; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/324531

Elasmobranchs are marine vertebrates with a global decline in catches due to overfishing (2). Skates and rays have particular biological characteristics including large sizes, slow growth, late reproduction and low fecundity, which increase vulnerability to fisheries (4). They present a high morphol...