The African dwarf skate (''Neoraja stehmanni''), or South African pygmy skate, 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 li ...
in the family
Rajidae. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to South Africa. Its natural
habitat
In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...
is open seas.
Sources
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African dwarf skate
Marine fish of South Africa
Endemic fish of South Africa
Taxa named by P. Alexander Hulley
African dwarf skate
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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