Broadnose skate

Broadnose skate
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Rajidae
Genus:	Bathyraja
Species:	B. brachyurops
Binomial name
	Bathyraja brachyurops; (Fowler, 1910)
Synonyms
	Breviraja brachyurops; (Fowler, 1910); Raja brachyura; (Günther, 1880); Raja brachyurops; (Fowler, 1910) ;

Broadnose skate (Bathyraja brachyurops) is a species of skate in the family Rajidae. This fish occurs on 28 to 604 meters, mostly at depths shallower than 250 meters, from Valdivia and Estrecho de Magallanes to Argentina and the Falkland Islands. It has the maximum total length of about 125 centimeters which it reaches in about 20 years. Both sexes reach maturity at age 8–10 years.^[2]

References

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^ Bailly, Nicolas (15 January 2008). "WoRMS taxon details Bathyraja brachyurops synonymised taxa". Retrieved 19 February 2010.
^ Arkhipkin, A. I.; Baumgartner, N.; Brickle, P.; Laptikhovsky, V. V.; Pompert, J. H. W.; Shcherbich, Z. N. (2008). "Biology of the skates Bathyraja brachyurops and B. griseocauda in waters around the Falkland Islands, Southwest Atlantic". ICES Journal of Marine Science. 65: 560–570. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn015.

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[1] Bailly, Nicolas (15 January 2008). "WoRMS taxon details Bathyraja brachyurops synonymised taxa". Retrieved 19 February 2010.

[2] Arkhipkin, A. I.; Baumgartner, N.; Brickle, P.; Laptikhovsky, V. V.; Pompert, J. H. W.; Shcherbich, Z. N. (2008). "Biology of the skates Bathyraja brachyurops and B. griseocauda in waters around the Falkland Islands, Southwest Atlantic". ICES Journal of Marine Science. 65: 560–570. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn015.

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