Pavoraja arenaria

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| name = Sandy skate

| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1

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| taxon = Pavoraja arenaria

| authority = Last, Mallick and Yearsley, 2008

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Pavoraja arenaria, commonly known as the sandy skate or yellow skate, is a species of fish in the family Arhynchobatidae. It lives in depths ranging from 192 to 712 meters but is usually found at 300 to 400 meters depth off the coast of western Australia. Its maximum size is {{convert|34.3|cm|abbr=on}} total length. It is a little-known species that could be threatened by being taken as by-catch in trawl fisheries.

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{{cite journal |author1=Heaven, C. |author2=Huveneers, C. | title = Pavoraja arenaria | journal = IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume= 2015 | page = e.T195471A68640323 | year = 2015 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T195471A68640323.en | doi-access = free }}

{{cite journal |author1=Last, Peter R. |author2=Mallick, Stephen |author3=Yearsley, Gordon K. |year=2008 |title=A review of the Australian skate genus Pavoraja Whitley (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume= 1812 |pages=1–45 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1812.1.1 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01812p045f.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113123047/http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01812p045f.pdf |archivedate=13 January 2011|url-status=live}}

{{FishBase | genus = Pavoraja | species = arenaria| month=October |year=2015}}

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Category:Pavoraja

Category:Fish of the Indian Ocean

Category:Taxa named by Peter R. Last

Category:Taxa named by Stephen Mallick

Category:Taxa named by Gordon K. Yearsley

Category:Fish described in 2008