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The genus name Bathyraja is derived from Greek, with "bathys" meaning deep and Latin "raja" meaning a ray. The species name "chapmani" is in honor of Demian Chapman, the Senior Scientist & Director, at the Center for Shark Research, at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, USA, for his contributions to shark and ray conservation and research.
They utilize similar resources to those of other upper trophic-level marine predators, such as seabirds, marine mammals, and sharks. The flattened body shape, ventral eyes and well developed spiracles of the skate allows them to live benthically, buried in the sediment or using a longitudinal undulation of the pectoral fins known as Rajiform ...
Halobates or sea skaters are a genus with over 40 species of water striders. Most Halobates species are coastal and typically found in sheltered marine habitats (a habitat where a few other genera of water striders also live), but five live on the surface of the open ocean and only occur near the coast when storms blow them ashore.
The blue skate (Dipturus batis), also known as the grey skate or blue-grey skate, is a species of cartilaginous fish, a ray, belonging to the family Rajidae, the skates.It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the flapper skate (D. batis), the combined taxon being known as the common skate.
Bathyraja lindbergi Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 (Commander skate) Bathyraja longicauda (F. de Buen, 1959) (Slimtail skate) Bathyraja maccaini Springer, 1971 (McCain's skate) Bathyraja macloviana (Norman, 1937) (Patagonian skate) Bathyraja maculata Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 (White-blotched skate) Bathyraja magellanica (Philippi {Krumweide}, 1902 ...
Goldbach’s Conjecture. One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in math is also very easy to write. Goldbach’s Conjecture is, “Every even number (greater than two) is the sum of two primes ...
The deepsea skate (Bathyraja abyssicola) is a species of softnose skate, in the family Arhynchobatidae, found in deep water from 362 to 2,906 m, usually on the continental slope. They are distributed from off northern Baja California around Coronado Island and Cortes Bank , north to the Bering Sea , and west to Japan.
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