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 fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
in the family
Rajidae. It lives near the bottom in deep waters in Southeast Atlantic in depths below 1000 m. Its maximum size is 77 cm. It has a hard, roughly triangular snout and smooth body with star-based thorns around its
eyes, tail, and elsewhere. Its top side is dark gray and underside has white spots. As the name suggests, it has a large mouth.
References
* http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/chondrichthyes/elasmobranchii/batoidei/amblyraja_robertsi.htm
* http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Amblyraja+robertsi
External links
Species Description of Amblyraja robertsi at biodiversityexplorer.orgSpecies Description of Amblyraja robertsi at www.shark-references.com
Rajiformes
Taxa named by P. Alexander Hulley
Fish described in 1906
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