Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Pisces > Class Elasmobranchii > Subclass Neoselachii > Infraclass Batoidea > Order Rajiformes > Family Rajidae > Genus Malacoraja

Malacoraja spinacidermis (Barnard, 1923)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Malacoraja*	Stehmann, 1970	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: soft skate sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: soft skate sources: english PESI focal point

German: Samthautrochen sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: dygioji minkštakūnė raja sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: шиповатый мягкий скат sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Скат м'який шипуватий; Шиповатый м'який скат

Literature

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, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp.
additional source	Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 p.
additional source	Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes.
additional source	FishBase, version december 2007
additional source	FishBase, version may 2009
additional source	FishBase, version october 2012
additional source	Fishbase

Genbank

Taxonomy

FishBase
WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
FishBase
GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Bailly, N. (2014). Malacoraja spinacidermis (Barnard, 1923). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105878