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Arhynchobatidae
Eaton's skate
Bathyraja eatonii
Horned capsules form across Kerguelen Plateau
- Polar
- Circumpolar Antarctic
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Southern Ocean
- Polar regions
- South America
- Large
- Cold-water fish
Polar
Regional distribution
Marine fish
LargeEaton's skate is a marine fish from Southern Ocean. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 100 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Skates
- Family
- Arhynchobatidae
- Genus
- Bathyraja
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Southern Ocean: common on the Kerguelen Plateau, around South Orkney and South Shetland islands. In the Antarctic Peninsula, it occurs in the northeastern Weddell Sea and on Gunnerus Ridge. A single record comes from the Pacific Ocean sector, in the Ross Sea. Southeast Pacific: Chile (Ref. 9068 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Order
Family
Conservation status
