''Rajella'' is a

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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

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and

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oceans.

Species

There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Rajella annandalei'' M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Annandale's skate) * ''

Rajella barnardi The bigthorn skate (''Rajella barnardi'') is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It is found in Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Western Sahara, ...

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, 1935 (Bigthorn skate) * ''

Rajella bathyphila The deepwater ray (''Rajella bathyphila''), also called the deepwater skate or abyssal skate, is a species of skate (fish), skate in the family Rajidae. Distribution The deepwater ray is bathydemersal; it has been recorded at , mostly below . I ...

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, 1908 (Deep-water ray) * '' Rajella bigelowi'' Stehmann, 1978 (Bigelow's ray) * '' Rajella caudaspinosa'' von Bonde & Swart, 1923 (Munchkin skate) * '' Rajella challengeri''

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& Stehmann, 2008 (Challenger skate) * ''

Rajella dissimilis The ghost skate (''Rajella dissimilis'') is a species of fish in the family Rajidae. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitat is open sea The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty ...

'' Hulley, 1970 (Ghost skate) * ''

Rajella eisenhardti ''Rajella'' is a genus of skate found deeper than in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Rajella annandalei'' M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Annandale's skate) * ''Rajella bar ...

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& McCosker, 1999 (Galápagos grey skate) * ''

Rajella fuliginea ''Rajella'' is a genus of skate found deeper than in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Rajella annandalei'' M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Annandale's skate) * ''Rajella bar ...

'' Bigelow &

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, 1954 (Sooty skate) * ''

Rajella fyllae ''Rajella fyllae'' is a species of skate (fish), skate in the family Rajidae. Name The scientific name ''fyllae'' refers to the ship HDMS Fylla, HDMS ''Fylla'', from where the holotype was collected by the ''Fylla'' scientific expeditions of 18 ...

'' Lütken, 1887 (Round ray) * '' Rajella kukujevi'' Dolganov, 1985 (Mid-Atlantic skate) * '' Rajella leopardus'' von Bonde & Swart, 1923 (Leopard skate) * '' Rajella lintea''

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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 ''Rajella'' is a genus of skate found deeper than in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Rajella annandalei'' M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Annandale's skate) * ''Rajella bar ...

'' Bigelow &

, 1962 (Purplebelly skate) * '' Rajella ravidula'' Hulley, 1970 (Smoothback skate) * '' Rajella sadowskii'' G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1974 (Brazilian skate)

References

Rajidae Ray genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rajiformes-stub