| Cruriraja | |
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| Rough leg skae (C. rugosa) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Gurgesiellidae |
| Genus: | Cruriraja Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| Cruriraja atlantis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 | |
Cruriraja is a genus of skates in the family Gurgesiellidae. They are primarily found in the warm West Atlantic (including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico) and off southern Africa, but C. andamanica is from the Indian Ocean.
Species
- Cruriraja andamanica (Lloyd, 1909) (Andaman leg skate)
- Cruriraja atlantis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 (Atlantic leg skate)
- Cruriraja cadenati Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 (Broadfoot leg skate)
- Cruriraja durbanensis (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) (Smoothnose leg skate)
- Cruriraja hulleyi Aschliman, Ebert & Compagno, 2010
- Cruriraja parcomaculata (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) (Roughnose leg skate)
- Cruriraja poeyi Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948 (Cuban leg skate)
- Cruriraja rugosa Bigelow & Schroeder, 1958 (Rough leg skate)
References
- Weigmann, S., Séret, B., Last, P.R. & McEachran, J.D. 2016. Pygmy Skates, Family Gurgesiellidae. Pp. 473–493 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R., Séret, B., Stehmann, M. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. ISBN 9780643109131. Reference page.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cruriraja". FishBase. February 2011 version.
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| Cruriraja | |
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