Richardson's ray

Taxobox
name = Richardson's ray


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Rajiformes
familia = Rajidae
genus = "Bathyraja"
species = "B. richardsoni"
binomial = "Bathyraja richardsoni"
binomial_authority = (Garrick, 1961)

Richardson's ray, "Bathyraja richardsoni", is a skate of the family Rajidae, found in the northeast and northwest Atlantic, and Cook Strait in New Zealand, at depths of from 1,300 to 2,500 m on the lower parts of the continental shelf. Their length is up to 1.75 m. Richardson's ray is a large deepwater ray of diamond shape, with a smooth grey-coloured skin.

Its diet is fishes and shrimps.

A horny egg case is anchored to the bottom by long coiled horns at each corner.

References

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*Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8