Beringraja
| Beringraja | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Big skate, Beringraja binoculata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Beringraja Ishihara et al., 2012[1] |
Beringraja is a genus of skates in the Rajidae family with two described species. They were included in Raja until 2012.[1] These large skates are found in the North Pacific.[2]
Species
There are six species in the genus:[2][3]
- Big skate (Beringraja binoculata) (Girard, 1855)
- Cortez' ray (Beringraja cortezensis) (McEachran & Miyake, 1988)
- California ray (Beringraja inornata) (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1881)
- Longnose skate (Beringraja rhina) (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880)
- Mottled skate (Beringraja pulchra) (Liu, 1932)
- Starry skate (Beringraja stellulata) D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880
References
- 1 2 Ishihara, H., Treloar, M., Bor, P.H.F., Senou, H. and Jeong, C.H. (2012). The comparative morphology of skate egg capsules (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes). Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 41: 9-25.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2017). Species of Beringraja in FishBase. January 2017 version.
- ↑ Last, P. R., S. Weigmann and L. Yang 2016. Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes). In: Last and Yearsley (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. 11-34.
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