The Antarctic starry skate (''Amblyraja georgiana'') 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. 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 ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. Its maximum length is 1 m. It produces oblong
egg capsules that have four sharp thorns in each corner and measure 116.5 mm long and 80.0 mm wide
References
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External links
Species Description of ''Amblyraja georgiana'' at www.shark-references.com
Amblyraja
Fish described in 1938
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