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Bathyraja griseocauda

Gray tail declining through fishery bycatch

Gray
Circumpolar Antarctic
Southern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
Polar regions
South America
Medium

The graytail skate (Bathyraja griseocauda), or gray tail skate, is a large species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae, native to the south-western Atlantic Ocean and south-eastern Pacific Ocean. It is listed as endangered by the IUCN. It was caught as part of a commercial fishery around the Falkland Islands and is a bycatch in several other fisheries.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Skates
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Maximum length: 49 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic: Uruguay (Ref. 58839 ) to Patagonian coast of South America including the Falkland Islands. Southern Ocean: Scotia Arc to South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.

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