The following is the full list of the extant species in Class Chondrichthyes, or the cartilaginous fish. Members of this class have a backbone, gills, no swim bladder, jaws, and a skeleton made of cartilage, a soft, strong material as a replacement for bone.

Subclass Holocephali

Order Chimaeriformes

Subclass Elasmobranchii

Superorder Batoidea

Order Torpediniformes

Order Rhinopristiformes

Order Rajiformes

  • Family Gurgesiellidae Buen 1959 (pygmy skates)
    • Tribe Gurgesiellini
    • Tribe Crurirajini
      • Genus Cruriraja Bigelow & Schroeder 1948 (leg skates)
        • Cruriraja andamanica (Lloyd 1909) (Andaman leg skate)
        • Cruriraja atlantis Bigelow & Schroeder 1948 (Atlantic leg skate)
        • Cruriraja cadenati Bigelow & Schroeder 1962 (Broadfoot leg skate)
        • Cruriraja durbanensis (von Bonde & Swart 1922) (Smoothnose leg skate)
        • Cruriraja hulleyi Aschliman, Ebert & Compagno 2010
        • Cruriraja parcomaculata (von Bonde & Swart 1922) (Roughnose leg skate)
        • Cruriraja poeyi Bigelow & Schroeder 1948 (Cuban leg skate)
        • Cruriraja rugosa Bigelow & Schroeder 1958 (Rough leg skate)
      • Genus Fenestraja (McEachran & Compagno 1982) (Pygmy skates)
        • Fenestraja atripinna (Bigelow & Schroeder 1950) (Blackfin pygmy skate)
        • Fenestraja cubensis (Bigelow & Schroeder 1950) (Cuban pygmy skate)
        • Fenestraja ishiyamai (Bigelow & Schroeder 1950) (Plain pygmy skate)
        • Fenestraja maceachrani (Seret 1989) (Madagascar pygmy skate)
        • Fenestraja mamillidens (Alcock 1889) (Prickly skate)
        • Fenestraja plutonia (Garman 1881) (Pluto skate)
        • Fenestraja sibogae (Weber 1913) (Siboga skate)
        • Fenestraja sinusmexicanus (Bigelow & Schroeder 1950) (Gulf of Mexico pygmy skate)
  • Family Anacanthobatidae (Smooth skates)[2]
    • Genus Anacanthobatis von Bonde & Swart 1923
      • Anacanthobatis americana Bigelow & Schroeder 1962 (American leg skate)
      • Anacanthobatis donghaiensis (Deng, Xiong & Zhan 1983) (East China leg skate)
      • Anacanthobatis folirostris (Bigelow & Schroeder 1951) (Leaf-nose leg skate)
      • Anacanthobatis longirostris Bigelow & Schroeder 1962 (Longnose leg skate)
      • Anacanthobatis marmorata (von Bonde & Swart 1923) (Spotted legskate)
      • Anacanthobatis nanhaiensis (Meng & Li 1981) (South China leg skate)
    • Genus Indobatis Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel 2014
      • Indobatis ori (Wallace 1967) Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel 2014 (Black legskate)
    • Genus Sinobatis (Hulley 1973) (Indopacific smooth skates)
      • Sinobatis andamanensis Last & Bussarawit 2016
      • Sinobatis borneensis (Chan 1965) (Borneo legskate)
      • Sinobatis brevicauda Weigmann & Stehmann 2016 (Short-tail legskate)
      • Sinobatis bulbicauda Last & Séret 2008 (Western Australian legskate)
      • Sinobatis caerulea Last & Séret 2008 (Blue legskate)
      • Sinobatis filicauda Last & Séret 2008 (Eastern Australian legskate)
      • Sinobatis kotlyari Stehmann & Weigmann 2016
      • Sinobatis melanosoma (Chan 1965) (Black-bodied legskate)
      • Sinobatis stenosoma (Li & Hu 1982) (Narrow leg skate)
  • Family Arhynchobatidae Fowler 1934 (longtail skates)
  • Family Rajidae: "True" skates

Order Myliobatiformes

Superorder Squalomorphii

Order Hexanchiformes

Order Squaliformes

Order Squatiniformes

Order Pristiophoriformes

Superorder Galeomorphi

Order Heterodontiformes

Order Orectolobiformes

Order Lamniformes

Order Carcharhiniformes

See also

References

  1. ↑ Last, P.R.; Séret, B.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2016). "A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea).". Zootaxa. 4117 (4): 451–475. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1. PMID 27395187.
  2. ↑ Last, P.R.; Weigmann, S.; Yang, L. (2016). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". Rays of the World: Supplementary information. CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection.
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