Arctic skate
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| Species: | A. hyperborea
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| Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879)
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The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in Rajidae family. It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2500 meters in the Arctic ocean and waters around Canada and Northern and North-West Europe, in northern Pacific ocean and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand. Is about a meter long. It's gray-brown with large dark spots. Underside is white with dark patters. Has thorns in line from back to near the end of the tail. Is oviparous, eggs are capsules with hard horns on each corner. Eats all sorts of small animals at the bottom of the sea.
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