Antarctic starry skate
| Antarctic starry skate | |
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| Species: | A. georgiana
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| Amblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938)
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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 South Georgia Island. 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
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Amblyraja georgiana" in FishBase. January 2018 version.
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