Species Bathyraja eatonii (Günther, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Raja eatonii Günther, A. 1876. Remarks on fishes, with descriptions of new species in the British Museum, chiefly from southern seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17(43): 389-402 [390].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1876.3.23.21, Royal Sound, Kerguelen Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

Generic Combinations

• Bathyraja eatonii (Günther, 1876). —
  Stehmann, M.F.W. 1986. Notes on the systematics of the rajid genus Bathyraja and its distribution in the world oceans. pp. 261-268 in Uyeno, T., Arai, R., Taniuchi, T. & Matsuura, K. (eds). Indo-Pacific Fish Biology. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Indo-Pacific Fishes. Tokyo : Ichthyological Society of Japan 985 pp. [263]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Ocean - Kerguelen Plateau and widespread off Antarctica.

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, demersal.

Extra Ecological Information

15-1500 m

Common Name References

Last, P.R., Stehmann, M.F.W., Séret, B. & Weigmann, S. 2016. 20. Softnose Skates. Family Arhynchobatidae. pp. 364-472 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R. de, Séret, B., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. Clayton South, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 790 pp. [382] (Eaton's Skate)

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