Beringraja
| Beringraja | |
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| Big skate, Beringraja binoculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Beringraja Ishihara et al., 2012[1] |
Beringraja is a genus of skates in the family Rajidae with up to six described species. Formerly, they were included in the genus Raja until 2012, when the genus Beringraja was erected for the two species which had multiple embryos per egg capsule.[1] Genetic evidence has led to four additional species being proposed for inclusion in the genus, although this issue has not be completely resolved.[2][3] These large skates are found in the North Pacific.[4]
Species[edit]
Up to six species are in the genus:[4][3]
- Big skate (B. binoculata) (Girard, 1855)
- Cortez' ray (B. cortezensis) (McEachran & Miyake, 1988)
- California ray (B. inornata) (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1881)
- Longnose skate (B. rhina) (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880)
- Mottled skate (B. pulchra) (Liu, 1932)
- Starry skate (B. stellulata) Jordan & Gilbert, 1880
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ishihara, H., Treloar, M., Bor, P.H.F., Senou, H. and Jeong, C.H. (2012). The comparative morphology of skate egg capsules (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes). Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 41: 9-25.
- ^ "Chondrichthyan Tree of Life". Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ a b Last, P. R., S. Weigmann and L. Yang 2016. Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes). In: Last and Yearsley (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. 11-34.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Beringraja in FishBase. January 2017 version.
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