Okamejei Kenojei
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The ocellate spot skate (''Okamejei kenojei''), also known as the spiny rasp skate or swarthy skate, is a
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of skate in the family Rajidae and is commonly found in the north-western Pacific Ocean. O. kenojei is a bottom-feeding carnivore that consumes mainly shrimp, fishes, and crabs. Its diet also includes small quantities of amphipods, mysids, cephalopods, euphausiids, copepods, isopods, and polychaetes.


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ocellate spot skate Fish of Korea Fish of East Asia Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle ocellate spot skate {{rajiformes-stub