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Rajiformes

Description

ORDER RAJIFORMES

Family Rhinobatidae

Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758) — No common name Rhinobatos cemiculus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 —Blackchin guitarfish

Family Rajidae

Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758 — Brown ray

Raja asterias Delaroche, 1809 — Starry ray

Raja brachyura Lafont, 1873 —Blonde ray

* Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 —Thornback ray * Raja microocellata Montagu, 1818 —Small-eyed ray * Raja montagui Fowler, 1910 —Spotted ray

Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blue skate Dipturus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Longnosed skate Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) — Sandy ray Leucoraja naevus (Müller & Henle, 1841) — Cuckoo ray Rostroraja alba (Lacepède, 1803) — Bottlenosed skate * Raja undulata Lacepède, 1802 — Undulate ray

Family Dasyatidae

Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common stingray

** Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) — Pelagic stingray Not mentioned for Galicia by McEachran and Capapé in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from the Galicia Bank under the name of Dasyatis violacea (Bañón et al., 1997).

Family Myliobatidae

* Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common eagle ray Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Devil fish

Notes

Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276366

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rajiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
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