Other names: Black skate
Plum brown to black dorsally, ventral side plum brown to black; mouth and cloaca whitish; tail length shorter than precaudal length; scapular and orbital thorns absent; 0-3 nuchal thorns present; dorsal thorns absent; tail thorns present; dorsal surface covered in fine denticles; ventral side smooth
Occurence: Bering Sea; California; Japan
Depth: 490-1504 meters Size: 85 cm
Species code: 460