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Amblyraja
''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 Ten recognized species are placed in this genus: * '' 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) (thorny skate) * '' Amblyraja reversa'' (Lloyd Lloyd, Lloyd's, or Lloyds may refer to: People * Lloyd (name), a variation of the Welsh word ' or ', which means "grey" or "brown" ** List of people with given name Lloyd ** List of people with surname Lloyd * Lloyd (singer) (born 1986), America .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amblyraja
''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 Ten recognized species are placed in this genus: * '' 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) (thorny skate) * '' Amblyraja reversa'' (Lloyd Lloyd, Lloyd's, or Lloyds may refer to: People * Lloyd (name), a variation of the Welsh word ' or ', which means "grey" or "brown" ** List of people with given name Lloyd ** List of people with surname Lloyd * Lloyd (singer) (born 1986), America .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amblyraja Hyperborea
The Arctic skate (''Amblyraja hyperborea'') is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2,500 m deep in the Arctic Ocean and waters around Canada and northern and north-western Europe, in the northern Pacific Ocean, and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand. The Arctic skate is about 1 m long and is gray-brown with large dark spots. Its underside is white with dark patterns. It has thorns in line from back to near the end of its tail. It is oviparous; its eggs are capsules with hard horns on each corner. It eats all sorts of small animals at the bottom of the sea. Taxonomy This species was first described by Robert Collett in 1879 and named ''Raja hyperborea.'' Conservation The Arctic skate is classified as being of "least concern" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In New Zealand, the Department of Conservation An environmental ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amblyraja Radiata
The thorny skate (''Amblyraja radiata'') is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. This bottom-living skate lives in the North and south-eastern Atlantic Ocean in depths ranging from and water temperatures from . Species description The thorny skate reaches up to in total length and in weight. Its underside is smooth, but the upper side, as the name suggests, is very rough with many small thorns all over and 13-17 larger ones in line from the back of the head to end of the tail. The top side is brown with possibly black spots and the underside is white. It has a hard, roughly triangular snout and a tail, which is shorter than its body. It eats crustaceans, small fishes, and worms. It produces egg capsules, which are 3.4-8.9 cm long and 2.3-6.8 cm wide, which hatch outside the body. Conservation status Thorny skate are taken as bycatch in some fisheries. It is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Servicebr>species of concern which are those species about which th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amblyraja Badia
The broad skate (''Amblyraja badia'') is a poorly known species of skate in the family Rajidae. It occurs at depths of , and has been observed via remotely operated underwater vehicle by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute as deep as , making it one of the deepest-occurring skates known.Kuhnz, LElasmobranch of the Month: January 2006. ''Pacific Shark Research Center''. Retrieved on November 15, 2008. It is sporadically distributed in the Pacific Ocean, from the Gulf of Panama to British Columbia and the Bering Sea, to the Tohoku Slope off northern Honshu and the Okhotsk Slope off Hokkaido. The species name, ''badia'', comes from the Latin ' meaning "brown", referring to its color. The pectoral fin disc of the broad skate is wider than it is long, with sharply rounded apices. The snout is short and blunt, with several enlarged thornlets at the tip. Its underside is smooth and its dorsal surface is densely covered with prickles. Two or three pairs of distinctive scapular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
