Pygmy skates are

cartilaginous fish Chondrichthyes (; ) is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes that have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or ''bony fishes'', which have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue ...

belonging to the

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Gurgesiellidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. Nineteen species in three genera are known.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. .

Genera

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Cruriraja ''Cruriraja'' is a genus of skates in the family Gurgesiellidae.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. ...

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Fenestraja ''Fenestraja'' is a genus of eight species of Skate (fish), skate in the family Gurgesiellidae. They are found in deeper waters of the western Atlantic (including the Caribbean Sea, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) and the Indian Ocean (east to Bali ...

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Gurgesiella ''Gurgesiella'' is a genus of fish in the family Gurgesiellidae. These relatively small deep-water skates are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans off South and Central America.Weigmann, S., Séret, B., Last, P.R. & McEachran, J.D. 2016. Pygm ...

References

Ray families Rajiformes {{Rajiformes-stub