arctic skate
Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2,500 m deep in the Arctic Ocean and waters around Canada and northern and north-western Europe, in the northern Pacific Ocean, and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand.
The Arctic skate is about 1 m long and is gray-brown with large dark spots. Its underside is white with dark patterns. It has thorns in line from back to near the end of its tail. It is oviparous; its eggs are capsules with hard horns on each corner. It eats all sorts of small animals at the bottom of the sea.
Wikipedia contributors, Arctic skate; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T02:56:46.111262+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879)
- Name authority
- (Collett, 1879)
- Common name
- arctic skate
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Family
- Rajidae
- Genus
- Amblyraja
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumChondrichthyes
- classElasmobranchii
- subclassNeoselachii
- infraclassBatoidea
- orderRajiformes Berg, 1940
- familyRajidae de Blainville, 1816
- genusAmblyraja Malm, 1877
- speciesAmblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Amblyraja. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Jensen's skateAmblyraja jenseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amblyraja reversa (Lloyd, 1906) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| starry rayAmblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Antarctic starry skateAmblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi, 1935) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| whiteleg skateAmblyraja taaf (Meisner, 1987) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amblyraja frerichsi (Krefft, 1968) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Amblyraja robertsi (Hulley, 1970) (Hulley, 1970) | synonym |
| Raja hyperborea Collett, 1879 Collett, 1879 | synonym |
| Amblyraja badia (Garman, 1899) (Garman, 1899) | synonym |
| Raja badia Garman, 1899 Garman, 1899 | synonym |
| Raja robertsi Hulley, 1970 Hulley, 1970 | synonym |
| Raja borea Garman, 1899 Garman, 1899 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105863 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:65ZNG. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.