Rajidae

arctic skate

Amblyraja hyperborea

Large dark spots in polar deep water

• Circumpolar Arctic
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Polar regions
• Other
• Large

The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2,500 m deep in the Arctic Ocean and waters around Canada and northern and north-western Europe, in the northern Pacific Ocean, and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand. The Arctic skate is about 1 m long and is gray-brown with large dark spots.