Fenestraja

Fenestraja

Plain pygmy skate ( Fenestraja ishiyamai )
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Gurgesiellidae
Genus:	Fenestraja McEachran & Compagno, 1982

Fenestraja is a small genus of eight species of skate in the family Gurgesiellidae found in deeper waters of the West Atlantic (including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) and Indian Ocean (east to Bali).^[1]

Species

Fenestraja atripinna (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Blackfin pygmy skate)
Fenestraja cubensis (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Cuban pygmy skate)
Fenestraja ishiyamai (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) (Plain pygmy skate)
Fenestraja maceachrani (Séret, 1989) (Madagascar pygmy skate)
Fenestraja mamillidens (Alcock, 1889) (Prickly skate)
Fenestraja plutonia (Garman, 1881) (Pluto skate)
Fenestraja sibogae (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Siboga skate)
Fenestraja sinusmexicanus (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Gulf of Mexico pygmy skate)

References

↑ 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. ISBN 9780643109131. Reference page.

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Fenestraja in FishBase. February 2011 version.

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