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Torpedo californica

Pacific electric ray(+4)·Ayres, 1855

GBIF:155386331

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(9)

North Pacific Ocean

North East Pacific

Pacific, Northeast

North Pacific Ocean

North East Pacific

Pacific, Northeast

The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia

British Columbia(CA)

Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part](CA)

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 5 languages.

Pacific electric rayengtorpedo del Pacíficospatorpille du PacifiquefraКалифорнийский гнюсrusゴマフシビレエイjpn

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 5 languages.

Pacific electric ray

eng

Source: Gillespie, G. E. (1993). An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1918: 116 p.

torpedo del Pacífico

spa

Source: Nelson, J.S.; Crossman, E.J.; Espinosa-Pérez, H.; Findley, L.T.; Gilbert, C.R.; Lea, R.N.; Williams, J.D. (2004). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada and Mexico Special Publication. American Fisheries Society, 29 American Fisheries Society: Bethesda. ISBN 1-888569-61-1. 386 + CD-Rom pp.

torpille du Pacifique

fra

Калифорнийский гнюс

rus

Source: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.

ゴマフシビレエイ

jpn

Source: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL).

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

BiotaAnimaliaChordataVertebrataGnathostomataChondrichthyesElasmobranchiiNeoselachiiBatoideaTorpediniformesTorpedinidaeTorpedininaeTetronarceTorpedo californica

DOM

Biota868,823

Animalia624,570

Chordata52,812

SUB

Vertebrata49,207

INF

Gnathostomata49,030

Chondrichthyes1,702

Elasmobranchii1,631

SUB

Neoselachii1,630

INF

Batoidea888

SUB

Torpedo californica

IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To GenBank (10233 nucleotides; 320 proteins)

NCBI:txid7787

UNKNOWN

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CITATIONS

References(2)

Ayres, W. O. (1855). [Descriptions of new species of Californian fishes.] A number of short notices read before the Society at several meetings in 1855. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. (Series 1) v. 1 (pt 1): 23-77. [Reprinted in 2nd ed. of Academy's Proceedings 1873 with slightly different pagination; see also Ayres 1854.].

original description

Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).

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