Bathyraja taranetzi, the mud skate, is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae found in the north-western Pacific Ocean.
This species reaches a length of .
The fish is named in honor of Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz (1910âÂÂ1941), an expert on fishes of the far-eastern seas of the U.S.S.R..