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Rattail skate

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ3703181 ↗
Source-derived summary

The rattail skate (Dipturus lanceorostratus) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It is endemic to Mozambique. Its natural habitat is open seas.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rattail skate” as species of fish. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rattail, skate and species.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 25-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rattail, skate and species providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Rattail skate”, the useful work is to connect “species of fish” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3703181. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rattail skate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.