Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Chondrichthyes > Class Elasmobranchii > Subclass Neoselachii > Infraclass Batoidea > Order Rajiformes > Family Rajidae > Genus Raja

Raja mauritaniensis White & Fricke, 2021

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Raja*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Raia*	Linnaeus, 1758	orthographic variant

Species group names

*Raja africana*	Capapé, 1977	synonym

Literature

original description	White, W. T.; Fricke, R. (2021). Raja mauritaniensis: A replacement name for Raja Africana Capapé, 1977 (Rajiformes: Rajidae), a Junior Homonym of Raja Africana Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae). Zootaxa. 4970(2): 399-400.
basis of record	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).
replacement name source	White, W. T.; Fricke, R. (2021). Raja mauritaniensis: A replacement name for Raja Africana Capapé, 1977 (Rajiformes: Rajidae), a Junior Homonym of Raja Africana Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae). Zootaxa. 4970(2): 399-400.

Genbank

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Raja mauritaniensis White & Fricke, 2021. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1536503