Kingdom Animalia Order Rajiformes Genus Amblyraja Higher classification Amblyraja | Phylum Chordata Family Rajidae Scientific name Amblyraja georgiana Rank Species | |
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Similar Skate, Amblyraja, Batoids, Elasmobranchii, Arctic skate | ||
The Antarctic starry skate (Amblyraja georgiana) is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. It lives near the seabed in depths ranging from 20 to 350 metres in the Southeast Pacific near Chile and occasionally around Greenland and around the Barents Sea. Its maximum size is 1 metre. 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
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