''Breviraja'', commonly known as lightnose skates, is a genus of small
skates in the family
Rajidae. They are found in deep water of the western Atlantic, including the
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...
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Breviraja claramaculata
''Breviraja'', commonly known as lightnose skates, is a genus of small skates in the family Rajidae. They are found in deep water of the western Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Species
* '' Breviraja claramaculata'' McEachran & Mathe ...
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McEachran & Matheson, 1985 (Brightspot skate)
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Breviraja colesi
''Breviraja'', commonly known as lightnose skates, is a genus of small Skate (fish), skates in the family Rajidae. They are found in deep water of the western Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Species
* ''Breviraja claramaculata'' John D. ...
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Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 (Lightnose skate)
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Breviraja marklei
''Breviraja'', commonly known as lightnose skates, is a genus of small skates in the family Rajidae. They are found in deep water of the western Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Species
* ''Breviraja claramaculata'' McEachran & Mathes ...
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McEachran & Miyake, 1987 (Nova Scotia Skate)
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Breviraja mouldi''
McEachran & Matheson, 1995 (Blacknose Skate)
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Breviraja nigriventralis
''Breviraja nigriventralis'', commonly known as the blackbelly skate, is a bathydemersal
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).Walrond Carl . "Coastal fish - Fish o ...
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McEachran & Matheson, 1985 (Blackbelly skate)
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Breviraja spinosa
''Breviraja spinosa'', commonly known as the spinose skate, is a species of ray in the family Rajidae.
References
*John D. McEachran and Richard E. Matheson, Jr., ''Polychromatism and Polymorphism in Breviraja spinosa (Elasmobranchii, Rajiform ...
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Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950 (Spinose skate)
References
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Rajiformes
Ray genera
Taxa named by Henry Bryant Bigelow
Taxa named by William Charles Schroeder
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