Cruriraja
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Superorder: | Batoidea |
Order: | Rajiformes |
Family: | Gurgesiellidae |
Genus: | Cruriraja Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 |
Cruriraja is a genus of skates in the family Gurgesiellidae.[1] They are primarily found in the warm West Atlantic (including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) and off southern Africa, but C. andamanica is from the Indian Ocean.
Species
[edit]- Cruriraja andamanica (Lloyd, 1909) (Andaman leg skate)
- Cruriraja atlantis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 (Atlantic leg skate)
- Cruriraja cadenati Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 (Broadfoot leg skate)
- Cruriraja durbanensis (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) (Smoothnose leg skate)
- Cruriraja hulleyi Aschliman, Ebert & Compagno, 2010
- Cruriraja parcomaculata (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) (Roughnose leg skate)
- Cruriraja poeyi Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 (Cuban leg skate)
- Cruriraja rugosa Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958 (Rough leg skate)
References
[edit]- ^ 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 Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Cruriraja in FishBase. February 2011 version.