Skillet skate

Skillet skate
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Rajidae
Genus:	Dactylobatus
Species:	D. armatus
Binomial name
Dactylobatus armatus (B. A. Bean & A. C. Weed, 1909)

The skillet skate (Dactylobatus armatus) is a small-bodied, deepwater skate in the family Rajidae.

The skillet skate is typically found at depths between 338 and 625 m (1,109 and 2,051 ft).^[1][2] Found in the western central Atlantic, its range extends from South Carolina to southern Florida, the northern Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and northern South America.^[1]

The skillet skate is a small skate. Its total length is up to 32 cm.^[1] Its body is narrow and features a spatula-shaped lobe from the margin of each pectoral muscle. On the underside of the frontal disc, the skate displays characteristic spines.^[2]

This species is assessed as least concern.^[1]

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