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Rajella
Sign in to saveRajella is a genus of skate found deeper than in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassElasmobranchii
- OrderRajiformes
- FamilyRajidae
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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 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) Rajella purpuriventralis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 (Purplebelly skate) Rajella ravidula Hulley, 1970 (Smoothback skate) Rajella sadowskii G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1974 (Brazilian skate)