Longtail skate

Longtail skate
	Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Arhynchobatidae
Genus:	Arhynchobatis; Waite, 1909
Species:	A. asperrimus
Binomial name
	Arhynchobatis asperrimus; Waite, 1909

The longtail skate (Arhynchobatis asperrimus) is a skate and is the only member of the genus Arhynchobatis.[1] This species was first described by Edgar Ravenswood Waite in 1909.[2] It is found off New Zealand at depths of from 90 to 1,000 m on the continental shelf.[3] Its length is from 30 to 75 cm.[3]

Conservation status

The New Zealand Department of Conservation has classified the longtail skate as "Data deficient" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[4]

gollark: It *does* seem like it could be quite good if not optimized for hypermicrosizes of the decompressor.

gollark: Never mind, zstd gets similar ratios, seems plausible.

gollark: It compresses those 5MB to 16.5KB? Implausible.

gollark: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OL0D5ujUX3Eyd3xcSbeXaEWe0nRmT5U1

gollark: You should compress my 500MB gollarious neural network.

References

Garilao, Cristina V.; Bailly, Nicolas (2018). "Arhynchobatis asperrimus Waite, 1909 Longtail skate". www.fishbase.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1909). "Pisces. Part I." Records of the Canterbury Museum. 1: 131–156 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Ayling, Tony; Cox, Geoffrey J. (1982). Collins guide to the sea fishes of New Zealand. Auckland [N.Z.]: Collins. ISBN 0002169878. OCLC 9506630.
Duffy, Clinton A. J.; Francis, Malcolm; Dunn, M. R.; Finucci, Brit; Ford, Richard; Hitchmough, Rod; Rolfe, Jeremy (2016). Conservation status of New Zealand chondrichthyans (chimaeras, sharks and rays), 2016 (PDF). Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Conservation. p. 9. ISBN 9781988514628. OCLC 1042901090.

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[1] Garilao, Cristina V.; Bailly, Nicolas (2018). "Arhynchobatis asperrimus Waite, 1909 Longtail skate". www.fishbase.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

[2] Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1909). "Pisces. Part I." Records of the Canterbury Museum. 1: 131–156 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[:0-3] Ayling, Tony; Cox, Geoffrey J. (1982). Collins guide to the sea fishes of New Zealand. Auckland [N.Z.]: Collins. ISBN 0002169878. OCLC 9506630.

[4] Duffy, Clinton A. J.; Francis, Malcolm; Dunn, M. R.; Finucci, Brit; Ford, Richard; Hitchmough, Rod; Rolfe, Jeremy (2016). Conservation status of New Zealand chondrichthyans (chimaeras, sharks and rays), 2016 (PDF). Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Conservation. p. 9. ISBN 9781988514628. OCLC 1042901090.