Okamejei

Okamejei is a genus of small skates in the family Rajidae from the central and western Indo-Pacific, and the north-western Pacific Ocean.[1]

Okamejei
Okamejei kenojei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Rajidae
Genus:	Okamejei Ishiyama, 1958
Type species
Raja fusca Garman, 1885

Species

Three species formerly placed in this genus were moved to Orbiraja in 2016.[2] There are currently 13 recognized species in Okamejei:[1]

• Okamejei acutispina (Ishiyama, 1958) (Sharpspine skate)
• Okamejei arafurensis Last & Gledhill, 2008 (Arafura skate)
• Okamejei boesemani (Ishihara, 1987) (Boeseman's skate)
• Okamejei cairae Last, Fahmi & Ishihara, 2010 (Borneo sand skate)
• Okamejei heemstrai (McEachran & Fechhelm, 1982) (East African skate)
• Okamejei hollandi (D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1909) (Yellow-spotted skate)
• Okamejei kenojei (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841) (Ocellate spot skate)
• Okamejei leptoura Last & Gledhill, 2008 (Thin-tail skate)
• Okamejei meerdervoortii (Bleeker, 1860) (Bigeye skate)
• Okamejei mengae Jeong, Nakabo & H. L. Wu, 2007
• Okamejei ornata Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2015 (Ornate skate)[3]
• Okamejei pita (R. Fricke & Al-Hassan, 1995) (Pita skate) (incertae sedis)[3]
• Okamejei schmidti (Ishiyama, 1958) (Browneye skate)

References

1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Okamejei in FishBase. February 2011 version.
2. Last, Weigman & Dumale (2016). A new skate genus Orbiraja (Rajiformes: Rajidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa 4184 (1).
3. Weigmann, S., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Thiel, R. (2015): Okamejei ornata n. sp., a new deep-water skate (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean off Socotra Islands. Deep-Sea Research Part II, 115: 18-29.