Bathyraja aleutica és una espècie de peix de la família dels raids i de l'ordre dels raïformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 161 cm de longitud total i 23,1 kg de pes.FishBase Fadeev, N.S., 2005. Guide to biology and fisheries of fishes of the North Pacific Ocean. Vladivostok, TINRO-Center. 366 p.

Reproducció És ovípar i les femelles ponen càpsules d'ous, les quals presenten com unes banyes a la closca.

Hàbitat És un peix marí i d'aigües profundes que viu entre 15-1.602 m de fondària.Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov i V.V. Volobuev, 2003. Catalog of marine and freswater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a l'oceà Pacífic nord: des del nord del Japó fins a les Illes Aleutianes i el sud-est d'Alaska.Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald i H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Estats Units. 336 p.Evermann, B.W. i E.L. Goldsborough, 1907. The fishes of Alaska. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26: 219-360.Ishihara, H., 1990. Study on the systematics and fishery resources of the North Pacific skates (Pisces: Chondrichthyes: Rajidae). Tokyo University. 186 p. Tesi doctoral.Ishiyama, R., 1967. Fauna Japonica. Rajidae (Pisces). Biogeogr. Soc. Jpn. (Tòquio): i-vi, 1-82.Nakaya, K. i S. Shirai, 1992. Fauna and zoogeography of deep-benthic chondrichthyan fishes around the Japanese Archipelago. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 39(1):37-48.Orlov, A., A. Tokranov i R. Fatykhov, 2006. Common deep-benthic skates (Rajidae) of the northwestern Pacific: Basic ecological and biological features Cybium 30(4) Suppl.: 49-65.Orlov, A.M., 1998. Demersal ichthyofauna of Pacific waters around the Kuril islands and Southeastern Kamchatka. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 24(3):144-160.Orlov, A.M., 1998. On feeding of mass species of deep-sea skates (Bathyraja spp., Rajidae) from the Pacific waters of the Northern Kurils and Southeastern Kamchatka. J. Ichthyol. 38(8):635-644.Orlov, A.M., 1998. The diets and feeding habits of some deep-water benthic skates (Rajidae) in the Pacific waters off the Northern Kuril Islands and Southeastern Kamchatka. Alaska Fish. Res. Bull. 5(1):1-17.Quast, J.C. i E.L. Hall, 1972. List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.

Observacions És inofensiu per als humans.

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