The blue skate, also known as the grey skate, blue-grey skate, and common skate, is a species of cartilaginous fish, a ray, belonging to the family Rajidae, the skates. It was formerly considered to b
Dipturus is a large genus of skates native to the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. They were formerly included in Raja. Some species initially moved to Dipturus were later placed in Dentiraja, Sp
Blue skate
…as "European Seas, locations being given as England and Lesbos. In 1810 Constantine Samuel Rafinesque proposed a new subgenus of Raja which he called Dipturus with R. batis as its only species, the blue skate is the type species of Dipturus by monotypy. The genus Dpturus belongs to the family Rajidae which…