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Brown Bight Skate
Dipturus acrobelus
- Usual depth560–1,042 m
- Water temperature14–23 °C
- Best monthsMay and December
- How commonRare
Photo credit: (c) CSIRO National Fish Collection, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 2 records
- February: 8 records
- March: 6 records
- April: 10 records
- May: 36 records
- June: 8 records
- July: 5 records
- August: 11 records
- September: 14 records
- October: 10 records
- November: 13 records
- December: 22 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 560–1,042 m · Deepest record: 1,308 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 14–23 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Brown Bight Skate, Deepwater Skate
Similar species
Grey SkateDipturus canutus
New Zealand Smooth SkateDipturus innominatus
- Bight Skate
Dipturus gudgeri
Pale Tropical SkateDipturus apricus
Queensland Deepwater SkateDipturus queenslandicus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 198 open-data records from 1975 to 2008.
- Species data updated November 2, 2026.
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