Bathyraja abyssicola

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Rajiformes; Arhynchobatidae; Bathyraja; Bathyraja abyssicola; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Gulf of Alaska; Milton; Pereyra; Nakaya; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818712; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818712

Bathyraja abyssicola (Gilbert, 1896). Deepsea Skate. To 157 cm (63 in) TL (Sheiko and Tranbenkova 1998). Southern Japan (Nakaya in Amaoka et al. 1983), Sea of Okhotsk (Dudnik and Dolganov 1992), western Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and eastern Bering Sea as far north as 56°07’N, 169°07’W (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington),Aleutian Islands south of Tanaga Island (Zorzi and Anderson 1990), and north of Unalaska Island (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington), eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and northern British Columbia (Gilbert 1896), to Islas Coronados, northern Baja California (Zorzi and Anderson 1988); southern Gulf of California (Kuhnz et al. 2019); Islas Revillagigedo (Becerril-García et al. 2020); Isla Galápagos (Cerutti-Pereyra et al. 2018). Benthic; depth: 362–2,905 m (1,187 –9,525 ft) (min.: Zorzi and Anderson 1988 (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California); max.: Gilbert 1896 (Personal communication: National Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Washington, D.C.; 1,588 fm)). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 24, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008