Bathyraja kincaidii

Description

Size: to 56 cm TL.

Reproduction: Oviparous.

General: Dorsal color uniformly light gray or mottled gray-brown with faint eyespots sometimes visible on the pectoral fins. Ventral color white, appearing as a white rim on the snout and pectoral fins. Snout shaped more acutely in males. Discontinuous row of medial thorns rarely seen in imagery.

Geographic Information

Published depth range: 79 - 1173 m

Ocean range (global): Gulf of Alaska (?), British Columbia to northern Baja.

Habitat description: Benthic, soft sediment.

Additional Information

Consulting taxonomist: David Ebert, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Consulting taxonomist: Joseph Bizzarro, University of Washington, Seattle.

Consulting taxonomist: Jose Leonardo Castillo-Geniz, Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuacultura, Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera de Ensenada, Baja California.

Verified MBARI depth distribution: 148 - to at least 710 m (March 2016).

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ebert, D. (2003). Sharks, rays, and chimeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 284 pp.

Bizzarro, J.J., K.M. Broms, M.G. Logsdon, D.A. Ebert, M.M. Yoklavich, L.A. Kuhnz, and A.P. Summers (2014). Spatial segregation in eastern North Pacific skate assemblages. PLoS ONE, 9: e109907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109907

Bradburn, M.J., A.A. Keller, and B.H. Horness (2011). The 2003 to 2008 U.S. West Coast Bottom Trawl Surveys of Groundfish Resources Off Washington, Oregon, and California: Estimates of Distribution, Abundance, Length, and Age Composition. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center. 323 pp.

Rinewalt, C.S., D.A. Ebert, and G.M. Cailliet (2007). Food habits of the sandpaper skate, Bathyraja kincaidii (Garman, 1908) off central California: seasonal variation in diet linked to oceanographic conditions. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 27: 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9703-4_4

Kuhnz, L.A., J.J. Bizzarro, and D.A. Ebert (2019). In situ observations of deep-living skates in the eastern North Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 103104. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103104.