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Diagnostic Description

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Snout is short and obtuse. Midbelt of its disc and upper surface of its tail are rough with large thorns in irregular rows. Upper surface ash gray to chocolate brown. Lower surface white, grayish white, pale gray or light fawn color, sooty patches on pelvic fins and axils of pectoral fins (Ref. 6902).
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Life Cycle

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Oviparous, paired eggs are laid. Embryos feed solely on yolk (Ref. 50449). Distinct pairing with embrace. Young may tend to follow large objects, such as their mother (Ref. 205).
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Trophic Strategy

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Typically a mesobenthic species found on the outer shelves and slopes, on soft substrate (Ref. 119696). Found in deeper shelf and slope waters, in 3-5.5°C water temperature (6902). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feed on all kinds of bottom animals with preference for invertebrates (Ref. 3167) like copepods, amphipods and mysids (Ref. 6902). A nematode, Proleptus mackenzei is a known parasite of the species (Ref. 5951).
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Biology

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Found in deeper shelf and slope waters, in 3-5.5°C water temperature (6902). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feed on all kinds of bottom animals with preference for invertebrates (Ref. 3167) like copepods, amphipods and mysids (Ref. 6902). Oviparous. Distinct pairing with embrace. Young may tend to follow large objects, such as their mother (Ref. 205). Eggs are oblong capsules with stiff pointed horns at the corners deposited in sandy or muddy flats (Ref. 205). Egg capsules are 3.8-4.2 cm long and 2.4-2.6 cm wide (Ref. 41303, 41251, 41301).
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Importance

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Rajella fyllae

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Rajella fyllae is a species of skate in the family Rajidae.[3][4]

Name

The scientific name fyllae refers to the ship HDMS Fylla, from where the holotype was collected by the Fylla scientific expeditions of 1884 and 1886 to Greenland.[5]

It is sometimes called the round ray or round skate,[6] but those names are also used for the family Urotrygonidae or the genera Heliotrygon and Irolita.[7][8] The name Fylla's ray is also used, perhaps by writers who thought that "Fylla" was the name of a person.[9][10]

Distribution

The round ray lives in the North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. It is a benthic fish, found in depths of 147–2,055 m (482–6,742 ft), typically 300–800 m (980–2,620 ft); in cold deeper continental shelf waters, 3–5.5 °C (37–42 °F).[11][12]

Description

Image by Lütken, 1898

Like all rays, the round ray has a flattened body with broad, wing-like pectoral fins. Its maximum length is 60 cm (2.0 ft). Its dorsal (upper) surface is grey or brown, with the lower surface light gray or fawn, with dark patches on the pelvic fins and axils of pectoral fins.[13]

Behaviour

Rajella fyllae feeds on mysids, copepods, crustaceans and amphipods.[14]

In breeding, there is a distinct pairing of the male and female, with an "embrace." It is oviparous, the eggs being oblong with stiff pointed "horns" in the corners; they are deposited in sandy or muddy flats.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species".
  2. ^ "Raja montagui". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  3. ^ Hamlett, William C. (October 14, 2011). Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Chondrichthyes: Sharks, Batoids, and Chimaeras, Volume 3. CRC Press. ISBN 9781439856000 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Ebert, David A.; Dando, Marc (December 8, 2020). Field Guide to Sharks, Rays & Chimaeras of Europe and the Mediterranean. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691211824 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Watkins, Michael; Beolens, Bo (January 30, 2015). Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. Pelagic Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781784270377 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Hamlett, William C. (May 21, 1999). Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. JHU Press. ISBN 9780801860485 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Rajella fyllae: Kulka, D.W., Anderson, B., Derrick, D., Pacoureau, N. & Dulvy, N.K." 2019. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T197086A22515038.en. S2CID 242570192. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ Ebert, David A.; Sulikowski, James (December 25, 2008). Biology of Skates. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781402097034 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Marine Scotland Science Report 03/10 - Deepwater Trawl Survey Manual
  10. ^ Neat, Francis; Campbell, Neil (September 20, 2011). "Demersal fish diversity of the isolated Rockall plateau compared with the adjacent west coast shelf of Scotland: FISH DIVERSITY OF THE ROCKALL PLATEAU". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104 (1): 138–147. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01699.x.
  11. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Rajella fyllae (Lütken, 1887)". www.marinespecies.org.
  12. ^ Carrier, Jeffrey C.; Musick, John A.; Heithaus, Michael R. (March 9, 2010). Sharks and Their Relatives II: Biodiversity, Adaptive Physiology, and Conservation. CRC Press. ISBN 9781420080483 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ "Rajella fyllae, Round ray". www.fishbase.se.
  14. ^ Last, Peter; Naylor, Gavin; Séret, Bernard; White, William; Stehmann, Matthias; Carvalho, Marcelo de (December 1, 2016). Rays of the World. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 9780643109155 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Rajella fyllae (Lütken, 1887)". www.marinespecies.org.

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Rajella fyllae: Brief Summary

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Rajella fyllae is a species of skate in the family Rajidae.

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Diet

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Feed on all kinds of bottom animals with preference for invertebrates

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Distribution

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found in deeper shelf and slope waters, in 3-5.5°C water temperature

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Habitat

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Found in deeper shelf and slope waters, in 3-5.5°C water temperature.

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Habitat

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benthic

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