Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rajiformes > Arhynchobatidae > Bathyraja > Bathyraja spinosissima

Bathyraja spinosissima (White skate; Spiny skate; Pacific white skate)

Synonyms: Psammobatis spinosissima; Psammobatus spinosissimus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Pacific white skate (Bathyraja spinosissima) is a species of skate, family Rajidae. It is one of the deepest-living of all skates, occurring at a depth of 800 to 2,938 m on the continental slope. It is native to the southeast Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos Islands to off Waldport, Oregon; an egg case and embryo has been collected from the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. Reports of it from the Sea of Okhotsk may represent a different species. Its species name, spinosissima, comes from the Latin spinosus meaning "thorny", referring to its covering of dermal denticles.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0