Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Rajiformes > Rajidae > Amblyraja > Amblyraja hyperborea

Amblyraja hyperborea (Arctic skate; Northern skate; Darkbelly skate; Boreal skate; Artic skate)

Synonyms: Raja borea; Raja hyperborea
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in Rajidae family. It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2,500 metres 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.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sirmilik National Park II 5475284 Canada

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Gadus morhua (rock cod)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hysterothylacium rigidum[5]
Otodistomum veliporum[5]
Pseudanisakis tricupola[5]
Rajonchocotyle batis[5]
Schistobrachia ramosa[6]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding Habits of Fish Species Distributed on the Grand Bank, Concepción González1, Xabier Paz, Esther Román, and María Hermida, NAFO SCR Doc. 06/31, Serial No. N5251 (2006)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Feeding and Food Consumption by the Barents Sea Skates, A.V. Dolgov, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 35: 495–503
♦ 4Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea, Andrey V. Dolgov, Edda Johannesen, Mikko Heino, and Erik Olsen, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 483–493
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0