Antarctic starry skate
Antarctic starry skate | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Superorder: | Batoidea |
Order: | Rajiformes |
Family: | Rajidae |
Genus: | Amblyraja |
Species: | A. georgiana
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Binomial name | |
Amblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938)
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The Antarctic starry skate (Amblyraja georgiana) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It lives near the seabed in depths ranging from 20 to 350 m in the south-eastern Pacific near Chile and South Georgia Island. Its maximum length is 1 m. It produces oblong egg capsules that have four sharp thorns in each corner and measure 116.5 mm long and 80.0 mm wide
References[edit]
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Amblyraja georgiana" in FishBase. January 2018 version.
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