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 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 ).