''Rajella'' is a
genus
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of
skate
Skate or Skates may refer to: Fish
*Skate (fish), several genera of fish belonging to the family Rajidae
* Pygmy skates, several genera of fish belonging to the family Gurgesiellidae
* Smooth skates or leg skates, several genera of fish belongin ...
found deeper than in the
Pacific
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,
Atlantic
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and
Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Associated with India
* of or related to India
** Indian people
** Indian diaspora
** Languages of India
** Indian English, a dialect of the English language
** Indian cuisine
Associated with indigenous peoples o ...
oceans.
Species
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Rajella annandalei''
M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Annandale's skate)
* ''
Rajella barnardi''
Norman
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** People or things connected with the Norma ...
, 1935 (Bigthorn skate)
* ''
Rajella bathyphila''
Holt & Byrne
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There are two Irish surnames which have Byrne as their English spelling; the mos ...
, 1908 (Deep-water ray)
* ''
Rajella bigelowi''
Stehmann, 1978 (Bigelow's ray)
* ''
Rajella caudaspinosa''
von Bonde & Swart, 1923 (Munchkin skate)
* ''
Rajella challengeri''
Last
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& Stehmann, 2008 (Challenger skate)
* ''
Rajella dissimilis''
Hulley, 1970 (Ghost skate)
* ''
Rajella eisenhardti''
Long
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Measurement
* Long, characteristic of something of great duration
* Long, characteristic of something of great length
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& McCosker, 1999 (Galápagos grey skate)
* ''
Rajella fuliginea''
Bigelow & Schroeder __NOTOC__
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, 1954 (Sooty skate)
* ''
Rajella fyllae''
Lütken, 1887 (Round ray)
* ''
Rajella kukujevi''
Dolganov, 1985 (Mid-Atlantic skate)
* ''
Rajella leopardus''
von Bonde & Swart, 1923 (Leopard skate)
* ''
Rajella lintea''
Fries
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, 1838 (Sailray)
* ''
Rajella nigerrima''
F. de Buen, 1960 (Blackish skate)
* ''
Rajella paucispinosa''
Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2014 (Sparsely-thorned skate)
* ''
Rajella purpuriventralis''
Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 (Purplebelly skate)
* ''
Rajella ravidula''
Hulley, 1970 (Smoothback skate)
* ''
Rajella sadowskii
''Rajella'' is a genus of skate found deeper than in the Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on ...
''
G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1974 (Brazilian skate)
References
Rajidae
Ray genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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