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Amblyraja
Sign in to saveAmblyraja is a genus of skates that primarily are found in the Atlantic, but species also occur in the East and North Pacific, the Arabian Sea, the sub-Antarctic, and off Southern Australia and New Zealand.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderRajiformes
- FamilyRajidae
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- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Rajidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, TCWC, CSIRO, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Australia
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Amblyraja is a genus of skates that primarily are found in the Atlantic, but species also occur in the East and North Pacific, the Arabian Sea, the sub-Antarctic, and off Southern Australia and New Zealand.
==Species== Eight recognized species are placed in this genus: Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi, 1935) (southern thorny skate) Amblyraja frerichsi (G. Krefft, 1968) (thickbody skate) Amblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938) (Antarctic starry skate) Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879) (Arctic skate) Amblyraja jenseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (shorttail skate) Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808) (thorny skate) Amblyraja reversa (Lloyd, 1906) (reversed skate) Amblyraja taaf (E. E. Meisner, 1987) (whiteleg skate) Synonyms Amblyraja badia (Garman, 1899) accepted as Amblyraja hyperborea (broad skate) Amblyraja robertsi (Hulley, 1970) accepted as Amblyraja hyperborea (bigmouth skate)
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