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title: "Boreal Skate"
description: "Amblyraja hyperborea — Vissen. The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/boreal-skate
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Boreal Skate

> Amblyraja hyperborea — Vissen. The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae.

- Scientific name: *Amblyraja hyperborea*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust), `arctic` (Poolgebied)
- iNaturalist observations: 38
- Wikidata: [Q238519](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238519)
- iNaturalist taxon: [93836](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/93836)

## Names

- en: Boreal Skate
- de: Arktischer Rochen
- es: Raya ancha
- fr: Raie boréale

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_skate

## Photo

![Boreal Skate](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/boreal-skate/medium.jpg)

Photo: unknown · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amblyraja_hyperborea.jpg

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/boreal-skate?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).