Raja asterias (Mediterranean starry ray)

Query: rajidae

Result: 7^th of 48

Subject:	Raja asterias (Mediterranean starry ray)
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Raja asterias
Date between 1700 and 1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Raja asterias
New Latin name Raja asterias
Common name Nederlands: Atlantische sterrog
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_asterias_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ14200063.tif

The Mediterranean starry ray (Raja asterias) is a species of skates in the family Rajidae. These rays are found in Eastern Atlantic: endemic to the Mediterranean but may spread to the Strait of Gibraltar, northern Morocco and possibly south to Mauritania.

Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Raja
Species: Raja asterias Delaroche, 1809

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