Kingdom Animalia Class Chondrichthyes Order Rajiformes Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Subclass Elasmobranchii Family Rajidae | |
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Similar Big skate, Raja, Aleutian skate, Bathyraja, Raja straeleni | ||
Raja rhina, the longnose skate, is a species of skate in the family Rajidae from the northeast Pacific. It is found from the Eastern Bering Sea and Alaska to Baja California and the Gulf of California. The longnose skate is found at depths of 9–1,069 m (30–3,507 ft) and often deeper than the big skate.
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Description
The longnose skate has an elongate snout and deeply notched pelvic fins. The longnose skate is up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. The longnose skate normally lives for 13 years.
Reproduction
The longnose skates egg case is large and smooth its also has large webbed keels on posterior and anterior margins. More about the egg case, the egg case maximum size is 15 cm (5.9 in) long and 12 cm (4.7 in) wide.
References
Raja rhina Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA