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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality: off Cabo de Santa Marta Grande, s. Brazil, 27°25'S, 47°05'W (Ref. 46206).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2003
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Common names from other countries

Narcina Kreftova, Kreffti süvaakurai, ... more

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranquios (tiburones y rayas) (sharks and rays) > Torpediniformes (Electric rays) > Narcinidae (Numbfishes)
Etymology: Benthobatis: Greek, benthos = depth of the sea + Greek, batis, -idos = a ray (Raja sp.) (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino batidemersal; rango de profundidad 420 - 527 m (Ref. 57911). Deep-water; 20°S - 45°S, 55°W - 40°W (Ref. 57911)

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Point map | Introducciones | Faunafri

Southwest Atlantic: off southern Brazil.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 57911)

Deep water species on the continental slope. Feeds on worms, isopods and amphipods. The late-term embryos seem to gestate in a combined uterine/cloacal chamber. Produces up to 2 pups during each pregnancy. Maturity size of males at ca. 15 cm TL, females at 20 cm TL; birth size at ca. 10 cm TL. It is reported to be locally abundant as many individuals have been collected together in a single trawl (Ref. 114953).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reproducción | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larva

There are indications that this species is ovovivipar (Ref. 57911).

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Carvalho, Marcelo | Colaboradores

Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2003. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003. (Ref. 46206)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

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Benthobatis kreffti Rincón, Stehmann & Vooren, 2001