Fenestraja

Fenestraja
Plain pygmy skate (Fenestraja ishiyamai)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Gurgesiellidae
Genus:
McEachran & Compagno, 1982
Type species
Raja plutonia
Garman, 1881

Fenestraja is a genus of eight species of skate in the family Gurgesiellidae. They are found in deeper waters of the western Atlantic (including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) and the 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

  1. ^ 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.


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