''Amblyraja'' is a

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of skates that primarily are found in the Atlantic, but species also occur in the East and North Pacific, the

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, the

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, and off

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and New Zealand.

Species

Ten recognized species are placed in this genus: * ''

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 , ...

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, 1899) (broad skate) * ''

Amblyraja doellojuradoi The southern thorny skate (''Amblyraja doellojuradoi'') is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It lives off the coast of Argentina and Uruguay (the southern tip of South America), and around the Falkland Islands in depths ranging from 51 to ...

'' ( Pozzi, 1935) (southern thorny skate) * ''

Amblyraja frerichsi The thickbody skate (''Amblyraja frerichsi'') is a species of fish in the family Rajidae found off the coasts of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Its natural habitat is open seas. Etymology The skate is named in honor of Thomas Frerichs, the cap ...

'' ( G. Krefft, 1968) (thickbody skate) * ''

Amblyraja georgiana 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 South Georgia ( e ...

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, 1938) (Antarctic starry skate) * ''

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 Pac ...

'' ( Collett, 1879) (Arctic skate) * ''

Amblyraja jenseni Jensen's skate (''Amblyraja jenseni''), also known as the shortail skate,Orlov, Alexie M, et al. “Deepwater Skates (Rajidae) Collected during the 2004 Cruises of R.V. ‘G.O. Sars’ and ‘M.S. Loran’ in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Area.” Resea ...

'' ( Bigelow &

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, 1950) (shorttail skate) * ''

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 th ...

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, 1808) (thorny skate) * ''

Amblyraja reversa ''Amblyraja reversa'', commonly known as the reversed skate, is a deepwater skate known from a single specimen. Based on the single specimen, its range is predicted to include at least the Western Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-l ...

'' ( Lloyd, 1906) (reversed skate) * ''

Amblyraja robertsi The bigmouth skate (''Amblyraja robertsi'') is a species of fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony ...

'' ( Hulley, 1970) (bigmouth skate) * ''

Amblyraja taaf ''Amblyraja taaf'', commonly known as the whiteleg skate or thorny skate, is a little-known skate Skate or Skates may refer to: Fish *Skate (fish), several genera of fish belonging to the family Rajidae * Pygmy skates, several genera of fish ...

'' (E. E. Meisner, 1987) (whiteleg skate)

References

Rajidae Ray genera Taxa named by August Wilhelm Malm Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rajiformes-stub