About Amblyraja radiata

The thorny skate Amblyraja radiata is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. This bottom-living skate lives in the North and south-eastern Atlantic Ocean in depths ranging from 20 to 1,000 m and water temperatures from −1 to 14 °C. It has a hard, roughly triangular snout and a tail, which is shorter than its body. It eats crustaceans, small fishes, and worms. It produces egg capsules, which hatch outside the body.

Animalia (Kingdom); Chordata (Phylum); Vertebrata (Subphylum); Gnathostomata (Infraphylum); Chondrichthyes (Parvphylum); Elasmobranchii (Class); Neoselachii (Subclass); Batoidea (Infraclass); Rajiformes (Order); Rajidae (Family); Amblyraja (Genus); Amblyraja radiata (Species)

Raja radiata Donovan, 1808

1. Donovan E. The natural history of British fishes: including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates, taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living[M]. and for F. and C. Rivington, 1808. (Donovan et al., 1808)

Diet Crustaceans, bony fishes and polychaete worms

Greenland and Hudson Bay to South Carolina