RAJIFORMES

Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, Zootaxa 2667, pp. 1-27 : 5-6

ORDER RAJIFORMES

Family Rhinobatidae

Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758) — No common name Rhinobatos cemiculus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 —Blackchin guitarfish

Family Rajidae

Raja miraletus Linnaeus, 1758 — Brown ray

Raja asterias Delaroche, 1809 — Starry ray

Raja brachyura Lafont, 1873 —Blonde ray

* Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758 —Thornback ray * Raja microocellata Montagu, 1818 —Small-eyed ray * Raja montagui Fowler, 1910 —Spotted ray

Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blue skate Dipturus oxyrinchus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Longnosed skate Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) — Sandy ray Leucoraja naevus (Müller & Henle, 1841) — Cuckoo ray Rostroraja alba (Lacepède, 1803) — Bottlenosed skate * Raja undulata Lacepède, 1802 — Undulate ray

Family Dasyatidae

Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common stingray

** Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) — Pelagic stingray Not mentioned for Galicia by McEachran and Capapé in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from the Galicia Bank under the name of Dasyatis violacea (Bañón et al., 1997) .

Family Myliobatidae

* Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common eagle ray Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Devil fish