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Arhynchobatidae Arhynchobatidae is a family of skates whose members are commonly known as the softnose skates. It belongs to the order Rajiformes in the superorder Batoidea of Ray (fish), rays. At least 104 species have been described, in 13 genera. Softnose ska ...

Species

There are 56 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Bathyraja abyssicola The deepsea skate (''Bathyraja abyssicola'') is a species of softnose skate, in the family Arhynchobatidae, found in deep water from 362 to 2,906 m, usually on the continental slope. They are distributed from off northern Baja California around C ...

'' ( Gilbert, 1896) (Deep-sea skate) * '' Bathyraja aguja'' ( Kendall & Radcliffe, 1912) (Aguja skate) * '' Bathyraja albomaculata'' (

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, 1937) (White-dotted skate) * '' Bathyraja aleutica'' ( Gilbert, 1896) (Aleutian skate) * '' Bathyraja andriashevi'' Dolganov, 1985 (Little-eyed skate) * '' Bathyraja bergi'' Dolganov, 1983 (Bottom skate) * '' Bathyraja brachyurops'' ( Fowler, 1910) (Broadnose skate) * '' Bathyraja chapmani'' Ebert, Alfaro-Shigueto, Velez-Zuazo, Pajuelo & Mangel, 2022 (Chapman's skate) * '' Bathyraja cousseauae'' Díaz de Astarloa & Mabragaña, 2004 (Joined-fins skate) * '' Bathyraja diplotaenia'' ( Ishiyama, 1952) (Dusky-pink skate) * '' Bathyraja eatonii'' ( Günther, 1876) (Eaton's skate) * '' Bathyraja fedorovi'' Dolganov, 1985 (Cinnamon skate) * '' Bathyraja griseocauda'' (

, 1937) (Graytail skate) * '' Bathyraja hesperafricana'' Stehmann, 1995 (West African skate) * '' Bathyraja interrupta'' (

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& Townsend, 1897) (Sandpaper skate) * '' Bathyraja irrasa'' Hureau & Ozouf-Costaz, 1980 (Kerguelen sandpaper skate) * '' Bathyraja ishiharai'' Stehmann, 2005 * '' Bathyraja isotrachys'' ( Günther, 1877) (Raspback skate) * '' Bathyraja kincaidii'' (

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, 1908) (Sandpaper skate) * '' Bathyraja leucomelanos'' Iglésias & Lévy-Hartmann, 2012 (Domino Skate) * '' Bathyraja lindbergi'' Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 (Commander skate) * '' Bathyraja longicauda'' ( F. de Buen, 1959) (Slimtail skate) * '' Bathyraja maccaini''

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, 1971 (McCain's skate) * '' Bathyraja macloviana'' (

, 1937) (Patagonian skate) * '' Bathyraja maculata'' Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 (White-blotched skate) * '' Bathyraja magellanica'' ( Philippi , 1902) (Magellan skate) * '' Bathyraja mariposa''

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, Orr, Hoff & McEachran, 2004 (Butterfly skate) * '' Bathyraja matsubarai'' ( Ishiyama, 1952) (Dusky-purple skate) * '' Bathyraja meridionalis'' Stehmann, 1987 (Dark-belly skate) * '' Bathyraja microtrachys'' Osburn & Nichols, 1916 (Fine-spined skate) * '' Bathyraja minispinosa'' Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 (Smallthorn skate) * '' Bathyraja multispinis'' (

, 1937) (Multispine skate) * '' Bathyraja murrayi'' ( Günther, 1880) (Murray's skate) * '' Bathyraja notoroensis'' Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 (Notoro skate) * '' Bathyraja pallida'' ( Forster, 1967) (Pale ray) * '' Bathyraja panthera'' Orr,

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& McEachran, 2011Orr, J.W., Stevenson, D.E., Hoff, G.R., Spies, I. & McEachran, J.D. (2011)
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NOAA Professional Paper NMFS, 11: 50pp (Leopard skate) * '' Bathyraja papilionifera'' Stehmann, 1985 (Butterfly skate) * '' Bathyraja parmifera'' (

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, 1881) (Alaska skate) * '' Bathyraja peruana'' McEachran & Miyake, 1984 (Peruvian skate) * '' Bathyraja richardsoni'' ( Garrick, 1961) (Richardson's ray) * '' Bathyraja scaphiops'' (

, 1937) (Cuphead skate) * '' Bathyraja schroederi'' ( Krefft, 1968) (Whitemouth skate) * '' Bathyraja sexoculata'' Misawa, Orlov, Orlova, Gordeev & Ishihara, 2020Ryo Misawa, Alexei M Orlov, Svetlana Y Orlova, Ilya I Gordeev, Hajime Ishihara, Tomonori Hamatsu, Yuji Ueda, Kunihiro Fujiwara, Hiromitsu Endo, Yoshiaki Kai (2020).''Bathyraja (Arctoraja) sexoculata sp. nov.'', a new softnose skate (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from Simushir Island, Kuril Islands (western North Pacific), with special reference to geographic variations in Bathyraja (Arctoraja) smirnovi. Zootaxa, 4861(4), 515–543. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4861.4.3 * '' Bathyraja shuntovi'' Dolganov, 1985 (Longnose deep-sea skate) * '' Bathyraja simoterus'' Ishiyama, 1967 (Hokkaido skate) * '' Bathyraja smirnovi'' ( Soldatov & Pavlenko, 1915) (Golden skate) * '' Bathyraja smithii'' (

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& Henle, 1841) (African softnose skate) * '' Bathyraja spinicauda'' ( Jensen, 1914) (Spinytail skate) * '' Bathyraja spinosissima'' ( Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) (Spiny skate) * '' Bathyraja trachouros'' ( Ishiyama, 1958) (Eremo skate) * '' Bathyraja taranetzi'' ( Dolganov, 1983) (Mud skate) * '' Bathyraja trachura'' ( Gilbert, 1892) (Roughtail skate) * '' Bathyraja tunae'' Stehmann, 2005 * '' Bathyraja tzinovskii'' Dolganov, 1985 (Creamback skate) * '' Bathyraja violacea'' (

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, 1935) (Okhotsk skate)

References

Rajidae Ray genera {{rajiformes-stub