Pacific white skate: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Pacific white skate Bathyraja spinosissima Least concern

Where the Pacific white skate lives, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Recorded in (GBIF)Representative wild record

Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 6 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See rays, skates & chimaeras on the world map

Scientific name	Bathyraja spinosissima
Group	Rays, skates & chimaeras
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Class	Cartilaginous fish
Order	Rajiformes
Family	Arhynchobatidae

Is the Pacific white skate endangered?

The Pacific white skate’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Pacific white skate?

The Pacific white skate (Bathyraja spinosissima) is a cartilaginous fish in the order Rajiformes and the family Arhynchobatidae, genus Bathyraja. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Pacific white skate

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. In 2023, the largest nursery of the species was discovered off the Pacific coast of Canada.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Pacific white skate (revision 1342906893), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q3759120 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).