Gurgesiellidae

Pygmy skates
	A Pluto skate (Fenestraja plutonia) found on iron-stained sand bottom with manganese nodules
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Gurgesiellidae; du Buen, 1959
Genera
	See text

Pygmy skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Gurgesiellidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. Nineteen species in three genera are known.[1]

Genera

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.

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[1] 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.