The skate is named in honor of Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866–1953), of Lund University, for his contributions to the ichthyology of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Ventral on the body appears a patchy white and brown mixture, except for the pelvic fin lobes and tail, which are darker.

These white patches are on the snout, upper abdomen, nostrils, mouth gill slits, and anal opening.

[2] This species of skate is believed to only be found in the North Atlantic, off the coasts of New England, Nova Scotia, Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Iceland, Ireland, Canada, and along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at depths of 167 to 2,548 m (548 to 8,360 ft),[2] making it one of the deepest-occurring skates known.

Little is documented about their feeding behavior, but like other of its family, it presumably would eat various cephalopods, crustaceans, and small bony fish such as rattails and teleost fishers.