Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS)

WoRMS taxon details

Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808)

To FishBase images (<i>Raja radiata</i>, Denmark, by Ueberschär, B.)

To FishBase images (Raja radiata, Denmark, by Ueberschär, B.)

AphiaID

105865 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105865)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Amblyraja Malm, 1877

Original name

Raja radiata Donovan, 1808

Synonymised names

Raia americana DeKay, 1842 · unaccepted

Raia scabrata Garman, 1913 · unaccepted

Raja radiata Donovan, 1808 · unaccepted (basionym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Raja radiata Donovan, 1808) Donovan, E. (1802-1808). 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. Volume II. London. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52534993
page(s): Pl. 174 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Greenland and Hudson Bay to South Carolina

Distribution Greenland and Hudson Bay to South Carolina [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105865 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Raja radiata Donovan, 1808) Donovan, E. (1802-1808). 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. Volume II. London. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52534993
page(s): Pl. 174 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Packer, D. B.; Zetlin, C.A.; Vitaliano, J.J. (2003). Essential fish habitat source document: thorny skate, Amblyraja radiata, life history and habitat characteristics. NOAA Technical Memorandum. 1-39. [details]

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [details]

additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Crustaceans, bony fishes and polychaete worms [details]

Distribution Greenland and Hudson Bay to South Carolina [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found on hard and soft bottoms; depth range of 20-1000m. [details]

Importance Social- Minor commercial, gamefish [details]

Predators Sharks, other rays and grey seals. [details]

Reproduction Internal fertilization; oviparous [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Danish	tærbe	[details]
Dutch	sterrogkeilrog [from synonym]	[details]
English	thorny skatestarry ray	[details]
French	raie radiéeraie épineuseétoilée [from synonym]	[details]
German	sternrochen [from synonym]SternrochenSternroche [from synonym]	[details]
Icelandic	tindaskata	[details]
Lithuanian	žvaigždėtoji raja	[details]
Norwegian	kloskate	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	kloskate	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	kloskate	[details]
Polish	raja promienista	[details]
Swedish	klorocka	[details]
Welsh	morgath bigog	[details]