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Antarctic Starry Skate
Amblyraja georgiana
The Antarctic starry skate (Amblyraja georgiana) is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. It lives near the seabed in depths ranging from 20 to 350 metres in the Southeast Pacific near Chile and South Georgia Island. Its maximum size is 1 metre. It produces oblong egg capsules which have four sharp thorns in each corner and which measure 116.5 mm long and 80.0 mm wide
From the article Antarctic starry skate on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The specific name georgiana is derived from South Georgia, the type locality of the species, with the Latin suffix -ana, meaning “belonging to” or “pertaining to”.
Wikipedia: “Etimology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 93835.