Rajidae

• Main Authors: Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia, Freitas, Mafalda
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Chondrichthyes; Rajiformes; Rajidae; Dipturus batis
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5969991; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887A0FFF9FFF9FF22FF56FD570479

Family Rajidae Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) —No common name in Madeira; Blue skate Nobre 1935: 475 | Albuquerque 1954 –56: 168 (as Raia batis ) Fowler 1936: 111 | Noronha & Sarmento 1948: 121 | Maul 1948: 140 | Nunes 1953: 198 (as Raja macrorynchus ) Stehmann 1973: 62 | Stehmann & Bürkel 1984a: 175 | Sanches 1986: 106 (as Raja (Dipturus) batis Lloris et al 1991: 236 (as Raja batis ) Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 317–321 (as Dipturus sp. cf. flossada ) Carneiro et al . 2014: 15. Distribution in Macaronesia. possibly Madeira archipelago, Azores (Porteiro et al . 2010) and Canary Islands (Brito et al . 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003). Remarks. Iglésias et al . (2010) have demonstrated that Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) is a composite species and provisionally split it into Dipturus sp. cf. flossada and Dipturus sp. cf. intermedia . Last et al . (2016b) retained D. batis and considered Dipturus sp. cf. flossada (Risso, 1826) as a junior synonym. Older records from Madeira refer this species as Raja macrorynchus Rafinesque, 1810 (Fowler 1936; Noronha & Sarmento 1948; Maul, 1948; Nunes 1953). This species is here considered as a junior synonym of D. batis (see remarks on next section). Ebert & Stehmann (2013) and Last et al . (2016b) note that both species ( D. batis and D. intermedius ) appear to live sympatrically in most of their distribution area, although not occurring with the same abundance, therefore we have opted to place D. batis as a doubtful record, until specimens from Madeira come to hand. Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758 —No common name in Madeira; Brown ray Garman 1913: 323 | Fowler 1936: 116 | Maul 1948: 140 ( as Raia quadrimaculata ) Albuquerque 1954 –56: 153 | Stehmann 1973: 58 | Stehmann & Bürkel 1984a: 187 | Sanches 1986: 98 | Lloris et al 1991: 236 | Wirtz et al . 2008: 4 | Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 370 | Carneiro et al . 2014: 15 Distribution in Macaronesia. possibly Madeira archipelago, Canary Islands (Brito et al . 2002 as dubious record) and Cape Verde ...