Bathyraja parmifera (Bean, 1881)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 25

Bathyraja parmifera (Bean, 1881) .

Alaska Skate. To 135 cm (54 in) TL ( Stevenson et al. 2007). North-western Sea of Okhotsk ( Saveliev et al. 2019), Western Bering Sea, at Ozernoy Bay, Kamchatka ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018) to south-eastern Chukchi Sea ( Mecklenburg and Steinke 2015) to central and eastern Aleutian Islands and south-eastern Alaska ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Eggs cases collected in the Chukchi Sea east of Wrangel Island, Russia and on Beaufort Slope ( Mecklenburg and Steinke 2015). Benthic; depth: 17–392 m (56–1,286 ft) (min.: Stevenson et al. 2007; max.: Stevenson et al. 2008) in Alaska waters. Reported to deeper depths in the western Bering Sea (1,425 m, 4,674 ft, Mecklenburg et al. 2002; 1,800 m, 5,904 ft, Grigorov et al. 2015), but may be a misidentification or an undescribed species (Ormseth 2015). This species and Bathyraja simoterus (Ishiyama, 1967) may be synonymous ( Last et al. 2016).