Amblyraja
| Amblyraja | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Broad Skate (A. badia) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Amblyraja Malm, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| Raja radiata Donovan, 1808 | |
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, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Amblyraja in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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