| Shorttail skate | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Amblyraja |
| Species: | A. jenseni |
| Binomial name | |
| Amblyraja jenseni Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Raja jenseni |
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The Shorttail skate (Amblyraja jenseni) is a species of fish in Rajidae family. It occurs all around North Atlantic, off the coasts of New England, Nova Scotia, Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Iceland and Ireland and also on the Mid-Atlantic ridge in depths of 167-2,548 meters. Its maximum size is 74.3 centimeters for males and 85 for females. It eats teleost fishes and crustaceans. The back of the animal is brown and the underside gray or white. It lays oblong egg capsules with horn-like projections at the corners.