Amblyraja

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Elasmobranchii
Superordo: Rajomorphii
Ordo: Rajiformes

Familia: Rajidae
Subfamilia: Rajinae
Tribus: Amblyrajini
Genus: Amblyraja
Species: A. doellojuradoi – A. robertsi
Name

Amblyraja Malm, 1877
References
Primary referencesAdditional references

2012: Zootaxa, 3182: 57–64. Preview

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Amblyraja species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Amblyraja and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Amblyraja is a genus of skates that primarily are found in the Atlantic, but species also occur in the East and North Pacific, the Arabian Sea, the sub-Antarctic, and off Southern Australia and New Zealand.
Species

Ten recognized species are placed in this genus:[1]

Amblyraja badia (Garman, 1899) (broad skate)
Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi, 1935) (southern thorny skate)
Amblyraja frerichsi (G. Krefft, 1968) (thickbody skate)
Amblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938) (Antarctic starry skate)
Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879) (Arctic skate)
Amblyraja jenseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (shorttail skate)
Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808) (thorny skate)
Amblyraja reversa (Lloyd, 1906) (reversed skate)
Amblyraja robertsi (Hulley, 1970) (bigmouth skate)
Amblyraja taaf (E. E. Meisner, 1987) (whiteleg skate)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Amblyraja in FishBase. February 2013 version.