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Raja microocellata (Owl ray; Painted ray; Painted skate; Smalleyed ray; Small-eyed ray; Smalleyed skate)

Synonyms: Raia microocellata; Raja microcellata
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Wikipedia Abstract

The smalleyed ray (Raja microocellata) is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. It is found off the coasts of France, Ireland, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Western Sahara. Its natural habitats are open seas and shallow seas. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.456 lbs (2.475 kg)
Female Maturity [1]  5 years
Litter Size [1]  58
Maximum Longevity [1]  9 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd 163340 Wales, United Kingdom
Luce Bay and Sands 120487 Scotland, United Kingdom
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol 341177 Wales, United Kingdom  
Start Point to Plymouth Sound & Eddystone 84204 England, United Kingdom  

Prey / Diet

Callionymus lyra (european dragonet)[2]
Crangon crangon (common shrimp)[2]
Merlangius merlangus (Whiting)[2]
Solea solea (True sole)[2]
Trisopterus luscus (Whiting-pout)[2]

Consumers

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.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 4Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
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