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 brachyura Lafont, 1871

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: blonde rog sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

English: blonde ray sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

French: raie lisse sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Blonde; Blondrochen sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

Greek: Ξανθόβατος sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: trumpauodegė raja sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: raja białoplama sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: белый ромбовый скат sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: raya boca de rosa sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kutkuyruk vatoz balığı sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Скат короткохвостий

Literature

original description	Lafont, A. (1873). Description d'une nouvelle espèce de raie. Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux. 28: 503-504, Pl.24.
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).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase images (Raja brachyura, by Bergmann, M.)
FishBase

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Raja brachyura Lafont, 1871. 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:367297