Beringraja rhina (Jordan & Gilbert 1880)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Rajiformes
- family
- Rajidae
- genus
- Beringraja
- species
- Beringraja rhina
description
Longnose Skate. To 204 cm (80.3 in) TL (Weigmann 2016). Southeastern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to just below Punta San Juanico (25 ° 59 ’ N, 113 ° 17 ’ W), southern Baja California (Snytko 1987), and Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: 9 – 1,294 m (30 – 4,244 ft) or more (min.: Wayne Palsson, pers. comm. to M. L.; max.: Keller et al. 2006 b). Formerly Raja rhina Jordan & Gilbert, 1880. Probably not in Beringraja (Chiquillo et al. 2014) and note our comments under Beringraja inornata (Jordan & Gilbert, 1881).