Rajidae

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Noun1.Rajidae - bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
fish family - any of various families of fish
Batoidei, order Batoidei, order Rajiformes, Rajiformes - fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes
skate - large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
genus Raja, Raja - type genus of the family Rajidae
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Five genera of skates in 2 families (Arhynchobatidae and Rajidae) are known in the eastern North Pacific.
Emerging patterns of species richness, diversity, population density, and distribution in the skates (Rajidae) of Alaska.
Morfologia del sistema mecanosensorial de la linea lateral de Zearaja chilensis (Batoidea: Rajidae).
micrura con relacion a especies representantes de las familias Narcinidae (Narcine brasiliensis), Rhinobatidae (Rhinobatos lentiginosus), Rajidae (Raja texana), Urotrygonidae (Urotrygon chilensis) y Dasyatidae (Dasyatis sabina):
In Group 2, the angel shark showed the highest contribution (18.2%), followed by skates (i.e., several species of Rajidae) (14.4%) and monkfish (10.9%).
These factors, along with bycatch, can lead these organisms to a population decline, and the family Rajidae is one of the most vulnerable to exploitation (Dulvy and Reynolds, 2002).
There are seven species of skates (family Rajidae) commonly encountered on the continental shelf waters off the northeastern United States, including winter skate, Leucoraja ocellata; little skate, L.
The most abundant (according to tooth number) elamosmobranch taxa are Squatina (37.89%), Pristiophorus (22.45%), Odontaspididae (17.24%), Myliobatis (6.70%), Squalus (6.81%), Rajidae (4.72) and Holocephali (2.68%).
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