The thickbody skate (''Amblyraja frerichsi'') 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 fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

in the family Rajidae found off the coasts of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Its natural

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is open

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Etymology

The skate is named in honor of Thomas Frerichs, the captain of the research vessel ''

Walther Herwig Walther Herwig (February 25, 1838, Bad Arolsen, Waldeck – December 16, 1912) was a Prussian administrative lawyer, and the founder of the German fisheries science. Herwig studied jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen from 1856, where ...

'', from which the holotype specimen was collected.

References

External links

Species Description of ''Amblyraja frerichsi'' at www.shark-references.com
Amblyraja Fish described in 1968 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rajiformes-stub