Antarctic starry skate

Antarctic starry skate

Taxobox |
name = Antarctic starry skate
regnum = Animalia
Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
superordo = Batoidea
ordo = Rajiformes
familia = Rajidae
genus = Amblyraja
species = A. georgiana
binomial = Amblyraja georgiana
binomial_authority = Norman, 1938

The Antarctic starry skate ("Amblyraja georgiana") is a species of fish in Rajidae family. It lives near the seabed in depths ranging from 20 to 350 meters in the Southeast Pacific near Chile and occasionally around Greenland and around Barents sea. Its maximum size is 1 meter. It produces oblong egg capsules which have four sharp thorns in each corner and which measure 116.5 mm long and 80.0 mm wide

References

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6953#


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