Smooth-tailed or Prickly Skate: Raja senta
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Description: A description and drawing of this species and information on its habits, range and occurrence in the Gulf of Maine.
Figure 30.—Smooth-tailed or prickly skate ( inches long, Emerald Bank, Nova Scotia. From Bigelow and Schroeder. Drawing by E. N. Fischer. By the time this skate has grown to one-fourth its adult size it is made recognizable by the fact that the middorsal line of thorns runs back only to about the middle of the tail, where the thorns so dwindle in size that they are not distinguishable from the tiny prickles with which the tail is clothed, generally. Newly hatched specimens in which this character is not yet established are separable from all other Gulf of Maine skates by the color pattern of the tail, which has two pale crossbars, each outlined in front and behind by a dark band or blotch.
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| Date | Creation Date: 1995-07-03T04:00:00Z Expiry Date: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z |