broadnose skate

Bathyraja brachyurops

Twenty years growing along southern shallow slopes

Temperate
Southern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
South America
Large
Temperate fish

Broadnose skate (Bathyraja brachyurops) is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. This fish occurs on 28 to 604 meters, mostly at depths shallower than 250 meters, from Valdivia and Estrecho de Magallanes to Argentina and the Falkland Islands. It has the maximum total length of about 125 centimetres (49 in) which it reaches in about 20 years.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Skates
Family: Arhynchobatidae
Genus: Bathyraja
Maximum length: 103 cm
Water: Marine
Distribution: Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic: Valdivia and Estrecho de Magallanes (Chile) to Argentina and the Falkland Islands.
Conservation status: NTNear Threatened

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