Arctic skate
| Arctic skate | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Amblyraja |
| Species: | A. hyperborea |
| Binomial name | |
| Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879) | |
The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in Rajidae family. It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2,500 metres in the Arctic ocean and waters around Canada and Northern and North-West Europe, in northern Pacific ocean and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand.
The Arctic skate is about a metre long and is gray-brown with large dark spots. Its underside is white with dark patterns. It has thorns in line from back to near the end of its tail. It is oviparous; its eggs are capsules with hard horns on each corner. It eats all sorts of small animals at the bottom of the sea.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2008). "Amblyraja hyperborea" in FishBase. November 2008 version.
- http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/full/63119/0
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