Okamejei
| Okamejei | |
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| Okamejei kenojei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Okamejei Ishiyama, 1958 |
| Type species | |
| Raja fusca Garman, 1885
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Okamejei is a genus of small skates in the family Rajidae from the central and western Indo-Pacific, and the north-western Pacific Ocean.[1]
Species
Three species formerly placed in this genus were moved to Orbiraja in 2016.[2] There are currently 13 recognized species in Okamejei:[1]
- Okamejei acutispina (Ishiyama, 1958) (Sharpspine skate)
- Okamejei arafurensis Last & Gledhill, 2008 (Arafura skate)
- Okamejei boesemani (Ishihara, 1987) (Boeseman's skate)
- Okamejei cairae Last, Fahmi & Ishihara, 2010 (Borneo sand skate)
- Okamejei heemstrai (McEachran & Fechhelm, 1982) (East African skate)
- Okamejei hollandi (D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1909) (Yellow-spotted skate)
- Okamejei kenojei (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841) (Ocellate spot skate)
- Okamejei leptoura Last & Gledhill, 2008 (Thin-tail skate)
- Okamejei meerdervoortii (Bleeker, 1860) (Bigeye skate)
- Okamejei mengae Jeong, Nakabo & H. L. Wu, 2007
- Okamejei ornata Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2015 (Ornate skate)[3]
- Okamejei pita (R. Fricke & Al-Hassan, 1995) (Pita skate) (incertae sedis)[3]
- Okamejei schmidti (Ishiyama, 1958) (Browneye skate)
References
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Okamejei in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- ^ Last, Weigman & Dumale (2016). A new skate genus Orbiraja (Rajiformes: Rajidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 4184 (1).
- ^ a b Weigmann, S., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Thiel, R. (2015): Okamejei ornata n. sp., a new deep-water skate (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean off Socotra Islands. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 115: 18-29.
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