Amblyraja
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Broad Skate (A. badia) | |
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Genus: | Amblyraja Malm, 1877
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Raja radiata Donovan, 1808
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Amblyraja is a genus of skates that primarily are found in the Atlantic, but there are also species in the East and North Pacific, the Arabian Sea, the sub-Antarctic, and off southern Australia and New Zealand.
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Amblyraja badia (Garman, 1899) (Broad skate)
- 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) (Starry Skate)
- Amblyraja reversa (Lloyd, 1906) (Reversed skate)
- Amblyraja robertsi (Hulley, 1970) (Bigmouth skate)
- Amblyraja taaf (E. E. Meisner, 1987) (Whiteleg skate)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Amblyraja". FishBase. February 2013 version.