Bathyraja matsubarai

Bathyraja matsubarai, the dusky-purple skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean.

Size
This species reaches a length of 126.0 cm.

Etymology
The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara (1907–1968), of the Imperial Fisheries Institute in Tokyo, who collected one of the paratypes at a fish market.