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A Classification of the Recent Elasmobranchii

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R. (Rajella) sp. SERET &ISHHARA Longnose Deepwater Skate<br />

Range; Malagasy Ridge, SW Indian Ocean<br />

R. (Rajella) sp. SERET Madagascar Deepwater Skate<br />

Range; Madagascar<br />

R. (Rajella) sp. P LAST & STEVENS 1993 Challenger Skate<br />

Range; Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Aus. from Sydney, NSW to Albany, W. Australia.<br />

FC 00 031040<br />

Subfamily AMBLYRAJINAE<br />

Genus AMBLYRAJA Malm 1877<br />

(Shorttail Skates)<br />

Amblyraja MALM 1877, type R.radiata DONOVAN 1807<br />

Raia ( Deltaraia ) LEIGH-SHARP 1924 type R.radiata DON.<br />

NB; Leigh-Sharpe's names are "pseudogenera" and are not intended as formal subgeneric names.<br />

They should be ignored for nomenclatural purposes ( Jordan 1925)<br />

A . RADIATA (Donovan) 1807 Starry Ray; Thorny<br />

Skate<br />

Raja fullonica FABRICIUS 1781 (non LINN. 1758 )<br />

Raia radiata DONOVAN 1807 t/l; Gt. Britain<br />

Raia scabrata GARMAN 1913 t/l; Massachusetts Bay<br />

Raja doello-juradoi POZZI 1935 t/l; Argentina.<br />

Range; Boreal North Atlantic south to Ireland and North Sea in <strong>the</strong> east and South Carolina in <strong>the</strong><br />

west, to 1000 m. .In <strong>the</strong> south Atlantic:- SW <strong>of</strong> Cape <strong>of</strong> Good Hope.(Upper slope) in 550-650 m.<br />

and Patagonia-Falklands Region to Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Argentina.<br />

A. HYPERBOREA (Collett) 1878 Arctic or Boreal Skate; Bigmouth Skate<br />

Raja hyperborea COLLETT 1878 t/l;N.W. Spitzbergen<br />

Raja borea GARMAN 1899 t/l; Faroe Channel<br />

Raja badia GARMAN 1899 t/l; Gulf <strong>of</strong> Panama<br />

Raja reversa LLOYD 1906 t/l; Arabian Sea, <strong>of</strong>f Baluchistan<br />

Raja frerichsi KREFFT 1968 t/l; Rio de la Plata, Argentina<br />

Raja robertsi HULLEY 1970 t/l; <strong>of</strong>f Capetown , S.Africa (slope at 1350 m.)<br />

Raja taaf MEISSNER 1987 t/l; Crozet I., S.W. Indian Ocean<br />

R. (Amblyraja) sp. STEHMANN 1989 (Ashy Skate)<br />

Range; Spitzbergen & Novaya Zemlya south to Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Norway & <strong>the</strong> Scotland-Iceland ridge in<br />

<strong>the</strong> east. South to Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Greenland in <strong>the</strong> west. Off Cape <strong>of</strong> Good Hope, S. Africa; Rio de la<br />

Plata,Eastern South America; Off <strong>the</strong> west coast <strong>of</strong> North America (Br. Colombia to W. Coast <strong>of</strong><br />

Mexico );Gulf <strong>of</strong> Panama; North Japan; Tasmania & Victoria, South Australia; NZ.;Arabian Sea <strong>of</strong>f<br />

Baluchistan. Probably worldwide in deep cool waters.<br />

FC 00 031041<br />

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