Arhynchobatidae

graytale stake

Bathyraja griseocauda

Gray tail declining through fishery bycatch

• Gray
• Circumpolar Antarctic
• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Southern Ocean
• Polar regions
• South America
• Medium

The graytail skate (Bathyraja griseocauda), or gray tail skate, is a large species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae, native to the south-western Atlantic Ocean and south-eastern Pacific Ocean. It is listed as endangered by the IUCN. It was caught as part of a commercial fishery around the Falkland Islands and is a bycatch in several other fisheries.