spinosissimus, Psammobatus Beebe [W.] & Tee-Van [J.] 1941:259, Pl. 2 (fig. 4) [Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society v. 26 (pt 3, no. 26); ref. 16103] 60 miles south of Cocos Island, eastern Pacific, 4°50'N, 87°00'W, depth 765 fathoms. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 46500 [ex NYZS 6132] (embryo). Type catalog: Mead 1958:134 [ref. 20648] who indicates published locality agrees with sta. 74 and not 72. Original genus should have been Psammobatis. •Valid as Bathyraja spinosissima (Beebe & Tee-Van 1941) -- (Stehmann 1986:263 [ref. 6151], McEachran in Fischer et al. 1995:776 [ref. 22829], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:28 [ref. 22793], McEachran & Dunn 1998:286 [ref. 23312], Dolganov 1999:429 [ref. 24873], Compagno 1999:488 [ref. 25589], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:15 [ref. 25650], Hoff 2002:145 [ref. 26938], Fedorov et al. 2003:19 [ref. 27579], Love et al. 2005:12 [ref. 37547], Stehmann 2005:S35 [ref. 28647], Stehmann 2005:S53 [ref. 28648], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:188 [ref. 30957], Parin et al. 2014:34 [ref. 33547], Dyldin 2015:66 [ref. 34524], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:110 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:97 [ref. 34211], Last et al. 2016:27 [ref. 34941], Last et al. 2016:420 [ref. 35005], Ebert et al. 2017:59 [ref. 35618], Ehemann et al. 2018:24 [ref. 36194], Salinas-de-León et al. 2018:1 [ref. 35824], Burton & Lea 2019:99 [ref. 37205], Orr et al. 2019:39 [ref. 37029], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37881], Bessudo et al. 2021:[3] 1771 [ref. 39107], González-Acosta et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:25 [ref. 39279], Knuckey & Ebert 2022:40 [ref. 39306], Ebert et al. 2022:32 [ref. 39636], Page et al. 2023:45 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bathyraja spinosissima (Beebe & Tee-Van 1941). Arhynchobatidae. Distribution: North Pacific and eastern Pacific: Sea of Okhotsk north to Bering Sea; Oregon (U.S.A.) south to Ecuador, including southern Gulf of California (Mexico), Malpelo Island (Colombia) and Galapagos Ridge (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.