Bathyraja tzinovskii explained

Bathyraja tzinovskii, the creamback skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the western Pacific Ocean. ^[1]

Size

This species reaches a length of 69cm (27inches).

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of oceanographer Vladimir Diodorovich Tzinovskiy of the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, who collected the holotype specimen.^[2]

Notes and References

1. McEachran, J.D. and K.A. Dunn, 1998. Phylogenetic analysis of skates, a morphologically conservative clade of elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Copeia 1998(2):271-290.
2. Web site: Family ARHYNCHOBATIDAE Fowler 1934 (Softnose Skates or Longtail Skates) . 4 May 2023 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018.