| Rajella | |
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| Rajella barnardi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Rajella Stehmann, 1970 |
| Type species | |
| Raja fyllae Lütken, 1887
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Rajella is a genus of skate found deeper than 150 m (490 ft) in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Species[edit]
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:
- Rajella annandalei M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Annandale's skate)
- Rajella barnardi Norman, 1935 (Bigthorn skate)
- Rajella bathyphila Holt & Byrne, 1908 (Deep-water ray)
- Rajella bigelowi Stehmann, 1978 (Bigelow's ray)
- Rajella caudaspinosa von Bonde & Swart, 1923 (Munchkin skate)
- Rajella challengeri Last & Stehmann, 2008 (Challenger skate)
- Rajella dissimilis Hulley, 1970 (Ghost skate)
- Rajella eisenhardti Long & McCosker, 1999 (Galápagos grey skate)
- Rajella fuliginea Bigelow & Schroeder, 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, 1838 (Sailray)
- Rajella nigerrima F. de Buen, 1960 (Blackish skate)
- Rajella paucispinosa Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2014 (Sparsely-thorned skate) [1]
- Rajella purpuriventralis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 (Purplebelly skate)
- Rajella ravidula Hulley, 1970 (Smoothback skate)
- Rajella sadowskii G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1974 (Brazilian skate)
References[edit]
- ^ Weigmann, S.; Stehmann, M.F.W. & Thiel, R. (2014). "Rajella paucispinosa n. sp., a new deep-water skate (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) from the western Indian Ocean off South Mozambique, and a revised generic diagnosis" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3847 (3): 359–387. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.3. PMID 25112345.