9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:19:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeleton of the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea 2021-11-29 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 10.5285/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 doi: 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 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 Criswell, K.E. University of Cambridge Kc518@cam.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4004-0192 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Head, J.J. University of Cambridge Jjh71@cam.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2237-6901 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gillis, J.A. University of Cambridge Jag93@cam.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2062-3777 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Criswell, K.E. University of Cambridge Kc518@cam.ac.uk pointOfContact University of Cambridge directcs@cambridge.org owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Leucoraja erinacea Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation anatomy fish morphology GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Evolutionary ecology Chondrichthyan Little skate otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions 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 English utf8 biota 2019-06-01 2019-07-01 TIFF NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9d7810c7-92af-47b2-81ec-365aafc39691.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 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).