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Pygmy Skates
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Pygmy Skates

Gurgesiellidae

Pygmy skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Gurgesiellidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. Nineteen species in three genera are known.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 19 known species

Gurgesiella

genusGurgesiella

Cruriraja

genusCruriraja

Pygmy Skates

genusFenestraja

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 883858.