WoRMS taxon details

Dipturus laevis (Mitchill, 1818)

158548  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158548)

accepted
Species
Raia stabuliforis Garman, 1913 · unaccepted (ambiguous synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Distribution Grand Banks and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina  
Distribution Grand Banks and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Dipturus laevis (Mitchill, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158548 on 2024-03-19
Date
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2005-05-26 07:43:32Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Packer, D. B.; Zetlin, C.A.; Vitaliano, J.J. (2003). Essential fish habitat source document: thorny skate, Amblyraja radiata, life history and habitat characteristics. <em>NOAA Technical Memorandum.</em> 1-39. [details]   

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Bivalve molluscs, squids, rock crabs, lobsters, shrimps, worms and fishes [details]

Distribution Grand Banks and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found on a variety of bottom environments to depths of 750m. [details]

Importance Social- Gamefish [details]

Predators Large sharks [details]

Reproduction Spawning occurs in winter months, eggs laid in a horny casing. [details]
LanguageName 
English sarndoor skatebarndoor skate  [details]
French grande raie  [details]