Yellowspotted skate
📖 Overview
Found in offshore areas on soft bottoms . Feed on bony fish and benthic invertebrates . Oviparous. Distinct pairing with embrace. Young may tend to follow large objects, such as their mother . Eggs are oblong capsules with stiff pointed horns at the corners deposited in sandy or muddy flats . Egg capsules are 7.3 cm long and 4.2 cm wide . Caught by hake trawlers .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
A distinctive skate with bright yellow spots, often in rosettes and whorls and sometimes forming eye-like markings on pectoral bases . Snout short, broad and blunt, disc narrow, and tail longer than body; disc very rough with 2-4 rows of thorns from midback to 1st dorsal fin, and with broadly rounded corners . Yellowish brown above, white below; some grey-brown above with white spots .: other.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Yellowspotted skate is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Yellowspotted skate is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Oviparous, paired eggs are laid. Embryos feed solely on yolk . Distinct pairing with embrace. Young may tend to follow large objects, such as their mother .
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; brackish; bathydemersal; depth range 70 - 517 m . Deep-water Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean: Lüderitz, Namibia round the Cape (South Africa) to southern Mozambique.
🌿 Ecology
bony fish and benthic invertebrates (Ref
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Yellospotted Skate · Yellow-spotted Skate · Yellowspot Skate · yellowspotted skate |
| 🌍CES | rejnok Wallaceův |
Scientific Synonyms
| Scientific Name | Author | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja wallacei | Hulley | 1970 | Synonym |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 2 records indexed .
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