Bathyraja taranetziBathyraja taranetzi, the mud skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean.SizeThis species reaches a length of.EtymologyThe fish is named in honor of Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz, an expert on fishes of the far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R..