Zearaja

Zearaja
	Zearaja nasuta by Joyce Allan
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Rajidae
Genus:	Zearaja; Whitley, 1939
Type species
	Raja nasuta; J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841

Zearaja is a small genus of skates in the family Rajidae. It currently consists of four described species found in oceans off New Zealand, Tasmania and southern South America.^[1]^[2]

Species

There are four species in the genus:^[3]

Zearaja brevicaudata (Marini, 1933) (Short tail yellownose skate)
Zearaja chilensis (Guichenot, 1848) (Yellownose skate)
Zearaja maugeana (Last & Gledhill, 2007) (Maugean skate)
Zearaja nasuta (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841) (New Zealand rough skate)

References

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Zearaja". FishBase.
^ Last, P.R.; Weigman, S.; Yang, L. (2016). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". In Last, P.R.; Yearsley, G.R. (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. pp. 11–34. ISBN 9781486308019.
^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Zearaja". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 November 2024.

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[fishbase-1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Zearaja". FishBase.

[Last2016-2] Last, P.R.; Weigman, S.; Yang, L. (2016). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". In Last, P.R.; Yearsley, G.R. (eds.). Rays of the World: Supplementary Information. CSIRO Special Publication. pp. 11–34. ISBN 9781486308019.

[Cof-3] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Zearaja". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 November 2024.

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