Fenestraja
| Fenestraja | |
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| Plain pygmy skate (Fenestraja ishiyamai) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Gurgesiellidae |
| Genus: | Fenestraja & Compagno, 1982 |
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[]
- (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Blackfin pygmy skate)
- (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Cuban pygmy skate)
- (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) (Plain pygmy skate)
- (, 1989) (Madagascar pygmy skate)
- (Alcock, 1889) (Prickly skate)
- Fenestraja plutonia (Garman, 1881) (Pluto skate)
- (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Siboga skate)
- (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 Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Fenestraja in FishBase. February 2011 version.
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