Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
(of Raja mollis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) Bigelow, H. B.; Schroeder, W. C. (1950). New and little known cartilaginous fishes from the Atlantic. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> v. 103 (no. 7): 385-408, Pls. 1-7. [details]
original description
(of Raja spinacidermis Barnard, 1923) Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445. [details]
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
van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [details]
additional source
Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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] 
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on Crustaceans, bony fishes and polychaete worms [details]
Distribution Eastern Atlantic: Iceland-Faeroe Ridge, off northwest Africa (Rio de Oro), off southern Namibia and South Africa. Reported from the eastern slope of Georges Bank (McEachran 2002, in Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002); ARC 9312004 from Davis Strait [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat Found from depths of 450m to 1500m . [details]
Reproduction Internal fertilization; oviparous [details]
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