Blue skate Dipturus batis Critically endangered
Where the blue skate lives – recorded in 5 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.
Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 16,545 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See rays, skates & chimaeras on the world map
| Scientific name | Dipturus batis |
|---|---|
| Group | Rays, skates & chimaeras |
| Status | Critically endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label) |
| Found in | 5 countries |
| Continents | Europe |
| Class | Cartilaginous fish |
| Order | Rajiformes |
| Family | Rajidae |
Where does the blue skate live?
Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the blue skate in 5 countries and territories across Europe.
Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.
Is the blue skate endangered?
The blue skate’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Critically endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the blue skate?
The blue skate (Dipturus batis) is a cartilaginous fish in the order Rajiformes and the family Rajidae, genus Dipturus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)
About the blue skate
The blue skate (Dipturus batis), also known as the grey skate, blue-grey skate, and common skate, is a species of cartilaginous fish, a ray, belonging to the family Rajidae, the skates. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the flapper skate (D. intermedius), the combined taxon being known as the common skate. Historically, it was one of the most abundant skates in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Despite its name, today it appears to be absent from much of this range. Where previously abundant, fisheries directly targeted this skate and elsewhere it is caught incidentally as bycatch. The former species was uplisted to critically endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2006 and it is protected within the EU.
Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Blue skate (revision 1365679599), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1421947 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).
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