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Pacific White Skate

Bathyraja spinosissima

Classification

The Pacific white skate (Bathyraja spinosissima) 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 (2,600 and 9,500 feet) 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.

Distribution

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