Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Beringraja binoculata (Girard, 1855) . Big Skate . To 244 cm ( 96 in ) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ). Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, at least as far west as Unalaska Island, to eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Cabo Falsa ( 22°54’N , 110°02’W ), southern Baja California ( Castro-Aguirre et al. 1993 ), and Gulf of California ( Castro-Aguirre and Espinosa Pérez 1996 ). Benthic; depth: 2 m ( 5 ft ) or less to at least 501 m ( 1,643 ft ) (min.: Miller et al. 1980 ; max.: Farrugia et al. 2016 ). Reported, but not confirmed, to 523 m ( 1,715 ft ) (NWFSC-FRAM). The often-cited deeper maximum depth of 800 m ( 2,624 ft ) (e.g., Allen and Smith 1988 ) lacks documentation and should not be cited ( Farrugia et al. 2016 ). Formerly Raja binoculata (Girard, 1855) .