''Gurgesiella'' is a genus of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
in the family
Gurgesiellidae
Pygmy skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Gurgesiellidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays
Ray may refer to:
Fish
* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spin ...
. These relatively small deep-water
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 ...
s are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans off South and Central America.
[Weigmann, S., Séret, B., Last, P.R. & McEachran, J.D. 2016. Pygmy Skates, Family Gurgesiellidae. Pp. 473–493 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R., Séret, B., Stehmann, M. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. . Reference page.]
Species
* ''
Gurgesiella atlantica''
( Bigelow & Schroeder __NOTOC__
Schroeder is a North German language, German (from Schröder) occupational name for a cloth cutter or tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German , "to cut". The same term was occasionally used to denote a gristmiller as well as ...
, 1962) (Atlantic pygmy skate)
* ''
Gurgesiella dorsalifera''
McEachran & Compagno, 1980 (Onefin skate)
* ''
Gurgesiella furvescens
The dusky finless skate (''Gurgesiella furvescens'') is a species of fish in the family Gurgesiellidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean off Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is open sea
The sea, connected as the world ...
''
F. de Buen, 1959 (Dusky finless skate)
References
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Rajidae
Ray genera
Taxa named by Fernando de Buen y Lozano
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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