Prickly deepsea skate

Prickly deepsea skate
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Rajidae
Genus:	Brochiraja
Species:	B. asperula
Binomial name
Brochiraja asperula (Garrick & Paul, 1974)

The prickly deepsea skate, Brochiraja asperula, is a skate of the genus Brochiraja, found around New Zealand, at depths of from 200 to 1,300 m on the continental shelf. Their length is from 30 to 50 cm.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Brochiraja asperula" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
• 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