Beringraja stellulata ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 27

Beringraja stellulata ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) .

Starry Skate. To 79 cm (31.1 in) TL, and probably to 82.5 cm (32.5 in) TL (Joseph J. Bizzarro). Queen Charlotte Sound (50°56.5’N, 128°45.3’W), British Columbia (DFO) to Isla de Cedros, and Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino, central Baja California ( Castro-Aguirre and Espinosa Pérez 1996). and northern Gulf of California ( Jacobsen Stout et al. 2019). Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska records of this species are incorrect (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and perhaps reflect catches of Bathyraja parmifera ( Ebert 2003) . Benthic; depth: 2 m or less to at least 400 m (1,312 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980; max.: Joseph J. Bizzarro), with undocumented records to 982 m (3,221 ft) (Joseph J. Bizzarro). Formerly Raja stellulata Jordan & Gilbert, 1880. However, while we list this species, for now, as B. stelluata we disagree with the revision; please note our comments under Beringraja inornata ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1881).