Rajella is a genus of skate found deeper than in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Species
There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus:
- Rajella annandalei <small>M. C. W. Weber, 1913</small> (Annandale's skate)
- Rajella barnardi <small>Norman, 1935</small> (Bigthorn skate)
- Rajella bathyphila <small>Holt & Byrne, 1908</small> (Deep-water ray)
- Rajella bigelowi <small>Stehmann, 1978</small> (Bigelow's ray)
- Rajella caudaspinosa <small>von Bonde & Swart, 1923</small> (Munchkin skate)
- Rajella challengeri <small>Last & Stehmann, 2008</small> (Challenger skate)
- Rajella dissimilis <small>Hulley, 1970</small> (Ghost skate)
- Rajella eisenhardti <small>Long & McCosker, 1999</small> (Galápagos grey skate)
- Rajella fuliginea <small>Bigelow & Schroeder, 1954</small> (Sooty skate)
- Rajella fyllae <small>Lütken, 1887</small> (Round ray)
- Rajella kukujevi <small>Dolganov, 1985</small> (Mid-Atlantic skate)
- Rajella leopardus <small>von Bonde & Swart, 1923</small> (Leopard skate)
- Rajella lintea <small>Fries, 1838</small> (Sailray)
- Rajella nigerrima <small>F. de Buen, 1960</small> (Blackish skate)
- Rajella paucispinosa <small>Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2014</small> (Sparsely-thorned skate)
- Rajella purpuriventralis <small>Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962</small> (Purplebelly skate)
- Rajella ravidula <small>Hulley, 1970</small> (Smoothback skate)
- Rajella sadowskii <small>G. Krefft & Stehmann, 1974</small> (Brazilian skate)
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