Skate
Description
This picture has been called 'Rosebank Ray 2' and 'Image 3348' Ken Sulak says 'Image 3348' is a bit of a mystery. It looks similar to Amblyraja radiata, the thorny ray, and has the right number of mid-dorsal large median spines - but the tail appears too short, the numerous large spines are missing from the body, and there is no distinct gap between the two dorsal fins. He says "I am not very familiar with rays from the Eastern Atlantic - that do not occur as well in the Western Atlantic. But, I do not think this image is of A. radiata." John McEachran thinks that this skate is Amblyraja and probably A. hyperborea. Samuel Iglésias says "I'm also very suprised by the colour (white spot) of that specimen , So I identify it as Amblyraja sp. (cf. hyperborea)."
| Item Type: | Image |
|---|---|
| Title: | Skate |
| Creator(s): | Gates, Andrew |
| Identification: | Sulak, Ken and Iglésias, Samuel and McEachran, John D |
| Date: | 23 October 2007 |
| Copyright: | SERPENT Project |
| Classification: | Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata (Chordates) > Class Chondrichthyes (Rays, Sharks & relatives) > Rajiformes (Rays, skates & sawfishes) > Rajidae (Rays & skates) |
| Species: | Amblyraja sp.? |
| Behaviour: | Swimming |
| Site: | Atlantic > North Sea > West of Shetland > Rosebank North Sea > West of Shetland > Rosebank |
| Site Description: | Seafloor |
| Depth (m): | 1125 |
| Latitude: | 61 deg 05' 29" N |
| Longitude: | 3 deg 41' 13" E |
| Habitat: | Benthic |
| Substratum: | deep-sea mud |
| Rig: | Transocean Rather |
| Project Partners: | Chevron, Subsea 7, Transocean |
| ROV: | Centurion 05 HD (work class) |
| Keywords: | Arctic skate, ray, verified |
| Deposited By: | Dr Andrew Gates |
| Deposited On: | 25 February 2010 |
Repository Staff Only: edit this item
CitationIn any downloading or consulting of the data from this website, the visitor acknowledges that he/she agrees to the following: Jones, D.O.B., Gates, A.R., Curry, R.A., Thomson, M., Pile, A., Benfield, M. (Eds) (2009). SERPENT project. Media database archive. Available online at accessed on If any data constitutes a substantial proportion of the records used in secondary analysis, the authors/managers of the database should be contacted. In any case, there are additional data which may prove valuable to such analyses. SERPENT Image and Video Archive is running on GNU EPrints repository-creating software, which generates eprints repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0. The GNU EPrints repository-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/. More information is available about the repository. |
|