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Bigelow's Skate

Rajella bigelowi

Classification

Family
Rajidae

Bigelow's ray (Rajella bigelowi), also called the chocolate skate or Bigelow's skate, is a species of cartligainous fish belonging to the family Rajidae, the hardnose skates. This species is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Bigelow's ray was first formally described as Raja (Rajella) bigelowi in 1978 by the German ichthyologist Matthias Stehmann with its type locality given as the Northwestern Atlantic at 37°05'N, 74°20.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Ireland · 25Canada · 1