Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rajiformes > Rajidae > Dipturus > Dipturus pullopunctatus

Dipturus pullopunctatus (Skate; Slime skate)

Synonyms: Dipturus pullopunctata; Raia pullopunctata; Raja pullopunctata
Language: Afrikaans; Dutch; French; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The slimeskate (Dipturus pullopunctatus) is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. It is found on soft bottoms of the outer shelf and upper slope on the coast of South Africa and Namibia.
View Wikipedia Record: Dipturus pullopunctatus

Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  12 years 6 months
Litter Size [1]  50
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years

Prey / Diet

Lophius vomerinus (Cape monk)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0