Aleutian skate

Bathyraja aleutica

From shallows to sixteen hundred meters in North Pacific

Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
East Asia
Large

The Aleutian skate (Bathyraja aleutica) is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. It lives in depths ranging from 15 to 1602 meters in North Pacific Ocean from northern parts of Japan to the Aleutian Islands and southeastern Alaska and south to northern California. It has a maximum total length of 161 centimeters.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Skates
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Maximum length: 161 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: North Pacific: from the Bering Sea, south to Cape Mendocino, northern California, and far west to northern Japan.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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