Featured Elasmobranch – Pacific White Skate
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009July 2009
Pacific White Skate
Bathyraja spinosissima (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941)
Family Arhynchobatidae (softnose skates)
Identification: A softnose skate with a disc that is slightly wider than long, broadly rounded pectoral fin apices, a disc surface evenly covered with numerous, small prickles above and below, giving it a shagreenlike texture to the [...]