Antarctic starry skate
| Antarctic starry skate | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Amblyraja |
| Species: | A. georgiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Amblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938)
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The Antarctic starry skate (Amblyraja georgiana) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It lives near the seabed in depths ranging from 20 to 350 m in the south-eastern Pacific near Chile and South Georgia Island. Its maximum length is 1 m. It produces oblong egg capsules that have four sharp thorns in each corner and measure 116.5 mm long and 80.0 mm wide
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Amblyraja georgiana". FishBase. January 2018 version.
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