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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 Pacific Ocean, and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand.
The Arctic skate is about 1 m long and is gray-brown with large dark spots. Its underside is white with dark patterns. It has thorns in line from back to near the end of its tail. It is oviparous; its eggs are capsules with hard horns on each corner. It eats all sorts of small animals at the bottom of the sea.
From the article Arctic skate on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Arctic Skate has a total length of 16–23 centimetres (6.3–9.1 in) at birth, and a maximum total length of approximately 112 centimetres (44 in). The dark margins on the underside of the Arctic Skate increase as it ages. Its dorsal surface is scattered with small thornlets and has a coarse texture.
Range & habitat
Amblyraja hyperborea has been found to occur between 165–3,165 metres (541–10,384 ft), but primarily below 800 metres (2,600 ft) in waters under 4.0 °C (39.2 °F), and have a preference for rough rocky substrate or cobblestone reefs.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 93836.