Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bathyraja abyssicola
Raya de profunidad, Deepsea Skate
Specimen observed at 1327.5 m depth on dive #H1440 as part of cruise NA064 aboard the E/V Nautilus.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Elasmobranchii
Order
Rajiformes
Family
Arhynchobatidae
Genus
Bathyraja
Species
abyssicola
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Raja abyssicola Gilbert, 1896 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Canada, North Pacific Ocean, The costal of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia and Ecuador in Galapagos Islands in Seamount northwest of Darwin I (Cerutti-pereyra et al., 2018; Horton et al., 2021).
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Cerutti-Pereyra, F. Yánez, A. N. A. B., Ebert, D. A., Arnes-Urgelles, C., & Salinas-de-Leon, P. (2018) New record and range extension of the Deepsea Skate , Bathyraja abyssicola (Chondrichthyes : Arhynchobatidae), in the Galapagos Islands. Cerutti-pereyra, F., Yánez, A. N. A. B., Ebert, D. A., Arnes-Urgelles, C., & Salinas-de-Leon, P. (2018). New record and range extension of the Deepsea Skate , Bathyraja abyssicola ( Chondrichthyes : Arhynchobatidae ), in the Galapagos Islands. 89(2018), 85–89.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bathyraja abyssicola", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19512. Accessed 3 May 2025.