FAMILY Rajidae Blainville, 1816 - skates [=Plagiostomia, Platosomia, Raia, Platysomi, Batides, Ablyraja, Cephaleutherinae, Amblyrajini, Riorajini, Rostrorajini] GENUS Amblyraja Malm, 1877 - skates Species Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi, 1935) - Southern thorny skate Species Amblyraja frerichsi (Krefft, 1968) - thickbody skate Species Amblyraja georgiana (Norman, 1938) - Antarctic starry skate Species Amblyraja hyperborea (Collett, 1879) - arctic skate [=badia, borea, robertsi] Species Amblyraja jenseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) - Jensen's skate Species Amblyraja radiata (Donovan, 1808) - thorny skate [=americana, scabrata] Species Amblyraja reversa (Lloyd, 1906) - reversed skate Species Amblyraja taaf (Meisner, 1987) - whiteleg skate GENUS Beringraja Ishihara et al., 2012 - skates Species Beringraja binoculata (Girard, 1855) - big skate [=cooperi] Species Beringraja cortezensis (McEachran & Miyake, 1988) - Cortez' ray Species Beringraja inornata (Jordan & Gilbert, 1881) - California ray [=inermis, jordani] Species Beringraja pulchra (Lui, 1932) - mottled skate Species Beringraja rhina (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) - longnose skate Species Beringraja stellulata (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) - starry skate GENUS Breviraja Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 - skates Species Breviraja claramaculata McEachran & Matheson, 1985 - brightspot skate Species Breviraja colesi Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 - lightnose skate Species Breviraja mouldi McEachran & Matheson, 1995 - blacknose skate [=schroederi] Species Breviraja nigriventralis McEachran & Matheson, 1985 - blackbelly skate Species Breviraja spinosa Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950 - spinose skate GENUS Dentiraja Whitley, 1940 - skates Species Dentiraja australis (Macleay, 1884) - Sydney skate Species Dentiraja cerva (Whitley, 1939) - whitespotted skate Species Dentiraja confusa (Last, 2008) - Victoria skate Species Dentiraja endeavouri (Last, 2008) - endeavour skate Species Dentiraja falloargus (Last, 2008) - Exmouth skate Species Dentiraja flindersi Last & Gledhill, 2008 - pygmy thornback skate Species Dentiraja healdi (Last et al., 2008) - Heald's skate Species Dentiraja lemprieri (Richardson, 1845) - denticulate skate [=dentata] Species Dentiraja oculus (Last, 2008) - Bunbury skate Species Dentiraja polyommata (Ogilby, 1910) - argus skate GENUS Dactylobatus Bean & Weed, 1909 - skates Species Dactylobatus armatus Bean & Weed, 1909 - skilletskate Species Dactylobatus clarkii (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) - hookskate GENUS Dipturus Rafinesque, 1810 - skates Species Dipturus acrobelus Last et al., 2008 - deepwater skate Species Dipturus amphispinus Last & Alava, 2013 - Sulu skate Species Dipturus apricus Last et al., 2008 - pale tropical skate Species Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) - common skate, blue skate [=flossada, gaimardi, hyposticta, intermedia, obscura C, obscura C in G, vulgaris C, vulgaris S] Species Dipturus bullisi (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) - Bullis skate Species Dipturus campbelli (Wallace, 1967) - blackspot skate Species Dipturus canutus Last, 2008 - grey skate Species Dipturus chinensis (Basilewsky, 1855) - Chinese dipturus skate Species Dipturus crosnieri (Séret, 1989) - Madagascar skate Species Dipturus doutrei (Cadenat, 1960) - javelin skate, violet skate Species Dipturus ecuadoriensis (Beebe & Tee-Van, 1941) - Ecuador skate Species Dipturus garricki (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) - San Blas skate Species Dipturus gigas (Ishiyama, 1958) - giant skate Species Dipturus grahamorum Last, 2008 - Graham's skate Species Dipturus gudgeri (Whitley, 1940) - greenback skate Species Dipturus innominatus (Garrick & Paul, 1974) - New Zealand smooth skate Species Dipturus intermedius (Parnell, 1837) - intermediate dipturus skate Species Dipturus johannisdavisi (Alcock, 1899) - Tranvancore skate Species Dipturus kwangtungensis (Chu, 1960) - Kwangtung skate Species Dipturus laevis (Mitchill, 1818) - barndoor skate [=granulata, stabuliforis] Species Dipturus lanceorostratus (Wallace, 1967) - rattail skate Species Dipturus leptocauda (Krefft & Stehmann, 1975) - thintail skate Species Dipturus macrocauda (Ishiyama, 1955) - bigtail skate Species Dipturus melanospilus Last et al., 2008 - blacktip skate Species Dipturus mennii Gomes & Paragó, 2001 - South Brazilian skate [=diehli] Species Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) - Norwegian skate Species Dipturus olseni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) - spreadfin skate Species Dipturus oregoni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958) - hooktail skate Species Dipturus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) - long-nosed burton skate [=acus, oxyrynchus, salviani, vomer] Species Dipturus pullopunctata (Smith, 1964) - slime skate Species Dipturus queenslandicus Last et al., 2008 - Queensland deepwater skate Species Dipturus springeri (Wallace, 1967) - roughbelly skate Species Dipturus stenorhynchus (Wallace, 1967) - prow-nose skate Species Dipturus teevani (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) - prickly brown ray [=floridana] Species Dipturus tengu (Jordan & Fowler, 1903) - acutenose skate Species Dipturus trachyderma (Krefft & Stehmann, 1975) - roughskin skate Species Dipturus wengi Seret & Last, 2008 - Weng's skate Species Dipturus wuhanlingi Jeong & Nakabo, 2008 - Wu's skate GENUS Hongeo Jeong & Nakabo, 2009 - Korean skates Species Hongeo koreana (Jeong & Nakabo, 1997) - Korean skate GENUS Leucoraja Malm, 1877 - skates Species Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) - cuckoo ray [=falsavela, intermedia, maggiore] Species Leucoraja compagnoi (Stehmann, 1995) - tiger-tail skate Species Leucoraja erinacea (Mitchill, 1825) - little skate Species Leucoraja fullonica (Linnaeus, 1758) - shagreen skate [=chagrinea, fullonica S, gallica, rondeleti] Species Leucoraja garmani (Whitley, 1939) - rosette skate [=caribbaea, ornata, virginica] Species Leucoraja lentiginosa (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) - freckled skate Species Leucoraja leucosticta (Stehmann, 1971) - whitedappled skate Species Leucoraja melitensis (Clark, 1926) - Maltese ray Species Leucoraja naevus (Müller & Henle, 1841) - sandy ray Species Leucoraja ocellata (Mitchill, 1815) - big skate, winter skate [=diaphanes] Species Leucoraja pristispina Last et al., 2008 - sawback skate Species Leucoraja wallacei (Hulley, 1970) - yellow spotted skate Species Leucoraja yucatanensis (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) - Yucatan skate, Yucatan whiteskate GENUS Malacoraja Stehmann, 1970 - skates Species Malacoraja kreffti (Stehmann, 1978) - Krefft's ray Species Malacoraja obscura Carvalho et al., 2005 - Brazilian soft skate Species Malacoraja senta (Garman, 1885) - prickly skate Species Malacoraja spinacidermis (Barnard, 1923) - roughskin skate [=mollis] GENUS Neoraja McEachran & Compagno, 1982 - skates Species Neoraja africana (Stehmann & Seret, 1983) - West African pygmy skate Species Neoraja caerulea (Stehmann, 1976) - blue ray Species Neoraja carolinensis McEachran & Stehmann, 1984 - Carolina pygmy skate Species Neoraja iberica Stehmann et al., 2008 - Iberian pygmy skate Species Neoraja stehmanni (Hulley, 1972) - African dwarf skate GENUS Okamejei Ishiyama, 1958 - skates Species Okamejei acutispina (Ishiyama, 1958) - sharpspine skate Species Okamejei arafurensis Last & Gledhill, 2008 - Arafura skate Species Okamejei boesemani (Ishihara, 1987) - Boeseman's skate Species Okamejei cairae Last et al., 2010 - Borneo sand skate Species Okamejei heemstrai (McEachran & Fechhelm, 1982) - East African skate Species Okamejei hollandi (Jordan & Richardson, 1909) - yellow-spotted skate Species Okamejei kenojei (Müller & Henle, 1841) - ocellate-spot skate [=atriventralis, japonica, fusca, porosa, tobae, katsukii] Species Okamejei leptoura Last & Gledhill, 2008 - thin-tail skate Species Okamejei meerdervoortii (Bleeker, 1860) - bigeye skate [=macrophthalma] Species Okamejei mengae Jeong et al., 2007 - mengae skate Species Okamejei ornata Weigmann et al., 2015 - ornate skate Species Okamejei schmidti (Ishiyama, 1958) - browneye skate GENUS Orbiraja Last et al., 2016 - skates Species Orbiraja jensenae (Last & Lim, 2010) - Sulu Sea skate Species Orbiraja philipi (Lloyd, 1906) - Philip's skate Species Orbiraja powelli (Alcock, 1898) - Indian ringed skate GENUS Raja Linnaeus, 1758 - skates [=Alpharaia, Argoraja, Batis, Betaraia, Cephaleutherus, Clavata, Dasybatis, Dasybatus B, Dasybatus J, Dasybatus Bl, Deltaraia, Eleutherocephalus, Epsilonraia, Gammaraia, Hieroptera, Iotaraia, Kapparaia, Laeviraja, Oxyrhynchus, Perioptera, Platopterus, Propterygia, Rajabutis, Spinraja, Tengujei, Thetaraia] Species Raja africana Capapé, 1977 - African ray Species Raja arctowskii Dollo, 1904 - Antarctic skate Species Raja asterias Delaroche, 1809 - starry skate [=alba, jojenia, punctata, schultzii, stellata] Species Raja brachyura Lafont, 1873 - blonde ray [=blanda] Species Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 - thornback skate [=abredonensis, aspera, bonaespeiensis, capensis, clavata S, leiobatos, maculatus, pontica, rhizanthus, rubus] Species Raja herwigi Krefft, 1965 - Cape Verde skate Species Raja karagea Tanaka, 1927 - Toba ray [=tobae] Species Raja maderensis Lowe, 1838 - Madeiran ray Species Raja microocellata Montagu, 1818 - owl ray Species Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758 - brown ray [=oculata, quadrimaculata] Species Raja montagui Fowler, 1910 - Homelyn ray [=maculata] Species Raja ocellifera Regan, 1906 - Algoa skate Species Raja parva Last & Seret, 2016 - African brown skate Species Raja pita Fricke & Al-Hassan, 1995 - pita ray Species Raja polystigma Regan, 1923 - speckled ray Species Raja radula Delaroche, 1809 - rough ray Species Raja straeleni Poll, 1951 - biscuit skate [=rouxi] Species Raja undulata Lacépède, 1802 - painted ray [=atra, fenestra, mosaica, picta] GENUS Rajella Stehmann, 1970 - skates Species Rajella annandalei (Weber, 1913) - Annandale's skate Species Rajella barnardi (Norman, 1935) - bigthorn skate [=confundens, dageti] Species Rajella bathyphila (Holt & Byrne, 1908) - deepwater ray, abyssal skate, chocolate skate Species Rajella bigelowi (Stehmann, 1978) - Bigelow's ray Species Rajella caudaspinosa (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) - munchkin skate [=albalinea] Species Rajella challengeri Last & Stehmann, 2008 - Challenger skate Species Rajella dissimilis (Hulley, 1970) - ghost skate Species Rajella eisenhardti Long & McCosker, 1999 - Galapagos grey skate Species Rajella fuliginea (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1954) - sooty skate Species Rajella fyllae (Lutken, 1887) - round ray [=lipacantha, marklei] Species Rajella kukujevi (Dolganov, 1985) - Mid-Atlantic skate Species Rajella leopardus (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) - leopard skate Species Rajella lintea (Fries, 1838) - sailray [=ingolfiana] Species Rajella nigerrima (de Buen, 1960) - blackish skate Species Rajella paucispinosa Weigmann et al., 2014 - Mozambique skate Species Rajella purpuriventralis (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962) - purplebelly skate Species Rajella ravidula (Hulley, 1970) - smoothback skate Species Rajella sadowskii (Krefft & Stehmann, 1974) - Brazilian skate GENUS Rostroraja Hulley, 1972 - bottlenosed skates Species Rostroraja ackleyi (Garman, 1881) - ocellate skate [=alia] Species Rostroraja alba (Lacépède, 1803) - bottlenosed skate [=bicolor, bramante, marginata, rostellata] Species Rostroraja bahamensis (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1965) - Bahama skate Species Rostroraja cervigoni (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1964) - finspot ray Species Rostroraja eglanteria (Bosc, in Lacepede, 1800) - clearnose skate [=chantenay, desmarestia] Species Rostroraja equatorialis (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) - equatorial ray Species Rostroraja texana (Chandler, 1921) - Roundel skate Species Rostroraja velezi (Chirichigno F., 1973) - Velez ray GENUS Spiniraja Whitley, 1939 - skates Species Spiniraja whitleyi (Iredale, 1938) - great skate [=ogilbyi, rostrata, scabra] GENUS Zearaja Whitley, 1939 - skates Species Zearaja argentinensis (Diaz de Astarloa et al., 2008) - Argentine skate Species Zearaja chilensis (Guichenot, 1848) - yellownose skate [=brevicaudata, flavirostris, latastei, oxyptera] Species Zearaja maugeana Last & Gledhill, 2007 - Maugeaen skate Species Zearaja nasuta (Muller & Henle, 1841) - New Zealand rough skate