''Breviraja nigriventralis'', commonly known as the blackbelly skate, is a
bathydemersal
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).Walrond Carl . "Coastal fish - Fish of the open sea floor"Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2 March 2009 They occ ...
species of ray in the family
Rajidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, in depths of 549 – 776 meters (about 1,800 - 2,550 feet). Male blackbelly skates can grow up to 40 centimetersin length.
References
Eol.orgRetrieved on February 8, 2011.
* Compagno, Leonard J. V. and Hamlett, William C., ed. (1999). ''Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes''. Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore: USA. .
* McEachran, John D., and Katherine A. Dunn. (1998). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Skates, a Morphologically Conservative Clade of Elasmobranchs" (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). ''Copeia'', vol. 1998, no. 2. pp. 271–290. ISBN/ISSN 0045-8511.M
blackbelly skate
Fish of the Western Atlantic
blackbelly skate
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