Antarctic starry skate

Antarctic starry skate
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Amblyraja
Species: A. georgiana
Binomial name
Amblyraja georgiana
(Norman, 1938)

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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