Bathyraja matsubarai

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Rajiformes; Arhynchobatidae; Bathyraja; Bathyraja matsubarai; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818728; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF89FFAD98EAFDBAFE0D333F

Bathyraja matsubarai (Ishiyama, 1952). Dusky-purple Skate. To 126 cm (49.6 in) TL (Weigman 2016). Northern Japan (Hatook et al. in Nakabo 2002) and Sea of Okhotska (Tohkairin et al. 2015). Two specimens in the University of Washington fish collection (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) are reported from the Bering Sea. While no precise location data is available, the captures were made on “Vessel 60 (Argosy), cruise 1985-01 in summer of 1985” and the identifications were made by John McEachran (Katherine Maslenikov). Benthic; depth: 120–2,000 m (393–6,560 ft) (Federov et al. 2003). 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 25, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008