McCain's skate

Bathyraja maccaini

Soft wings spread across Antarctic Peninsula seabeds

Polar
Circumpolar Antarctic
Southern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
Polar regions
South America
Large
Cold-water fish

Bathyraja maccaini, also known as McCain's skate, is a species of softnose skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. It is a demersal species. Its range is poorly understood, but it is distributed in Antarctic and Subantarctic waters from the Orkney and South Shetland Islands to the Antarctic Peninsula.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Skates
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Maximum length: 120 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: Southern Ocean: Orkney and South Shetland islands to the Antarctic Peninsula. Probably more widespread in continental waters into the Weddell Sea and eastward as well as into the Pacific Ocean sector westward. Southeast Pacific: Chile (Ref. 9068 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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