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Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea
CT scans of adult little skates (Leucoraja erinacea). These scans consist of series of tiff images that can be imported into CT segmenting software to reconstruct their shape in three dimensions. Supplemental files include CT scanning parameters, landmark coordinates for each vertebra in each skate, up to vertebra 70, as well as an R script with code for analysing vertebral shape using morphometrics and segmented linear regression tests. Computed tomography scans of three adult little skates were obtained in order to quantitatively study vertebral column morphology and regionalization. The skate fins were removed to facilitate shipping to our scanning facility, and so the scans include only the head, gill basket, and axial column. The specimens are now housed in the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology (specimen identification numbers 2021.50.1, 20201.50.2, and 2021.50.3). Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-11-29
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
- Other citation details
- Criswell, K.E., Head, J.J., Gillis, J.A. (2021). Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
- Evolutionary ecology
- Chondrichthyan
- Little skate
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Criswell, K.E., Head, J.J., Gillis, J.A. (2021). Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691
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- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2019-06-01
- End date
- 2019-07-01
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TIFF
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TIFF
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- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
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- nonGeographicDataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The skates were collected by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, USA, in the waters off the Massachusetts coast in the summer of 2019. The specimens were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for one week, rinsed in water, and stored in 70% ethanol. Computed tomography scans were obtained at the Cambridge Biotomography Centre by Keturah Smithson, a trained CT technician, using a Nikon XTEK H 225 ST MicroCT scanner. Post-processing to optimise CT reconstructions and minimise scan artefacts was performed in Nikon’s CT-Pro program, and scan reslicing was performed using VG STUDIOMAX (Volume Graphics).
- File identifier
- 9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- nonGeographicDataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:19:49
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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