Pacific White Skate
Bathyraja spinosissima
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Sharks and rays
The Pacific white skate is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. It is one of the deepest-living of all skates, occurring at a depth of 800 to 2,906m 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 have been collected from the Farallon Islands off San Francisco. In 2023, the largest nursery of the species was discovered off the Pacific coast of Canada.
Classification
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Family
- Arhynchobatidae
- Genus
- Bathyraja