Batoidea - Wikipedia
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays. They and their close relatives, the sharks, compose the subclass Elasmobranchii. Rays are the largest group of cartilaginous fishes, with well over 600 species in 26 families.
Ray | Description, Types, & Facts | Britannica
Ray, any of the cartilaginous fishes of the order Batoidei, related to sharks and placed with them in the class Chondrichthyes. Rays are distinguished from sharks by a flattened, disklike body, with the five gill openings and the mouth generally located on the underside.
Rays Facts and Information | United Parks & Resorts
All rays belong to the superorder Batoidea, which includes stingrays, electric rays, skates, guitarfish, and sawfish. Like sharks – their close relatives – batoids have skeletons made of tough connective tissue called cartilage.
Ray - New World Encyclopedia
In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral fins continuous with the head, no anal fin, eyes on the dorsal surface, and a narrow tail.
Rays - Learn All About Rays - Marine Animals
Rays are aquatic fish that have cartilage. Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families. Rays have a boneless skeleton made of a tough, elastic substance.
Skate (fish) - Wikipedia
Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. More than 150 species have been described, in 17 genera. [2] Softnose skates and pygmy skates were previously treated as subfamilies of Rajidae (Arhynchobatinae and Gurgesiellinae), but are now considered as distinct families. [2]
Myliobatiformes - Wikipedia
Myliobatiformes (/ mɪliˈɒbətɪfɔːrmiːz /) is one of the four orders of batoids, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. [5][6] They were formerly included in the order Rajiformes, but more recent phylogenetic studies have shown the myliobatiforms to be a monophyletic group, and its more derived members evolved their highly flattened shapes indepe...
Ray - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The rays, or batoids, are a group of cartilaginous fish containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families. They include four orders. Rays are mostly flattened in shape, and usually demersal, living and eating at the bottom of the sea.
Batoidei | fish order | Britannica
Order Batoidei (rays, sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates, and stingrays) 5 gill openings, wholly on ventral surface; pectoral fins united with sides of head forward past the gill opening. Differ from all sharks in lacking upper free eyelid. More than 500 species. Jurassic to present.
Batoids: Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, - elasmo-research.org
Batoids are found in all oceans, from cold temperate to warm tropical zones, and from the surface to at least 9,840 feet (3,000 metres) in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. 78 genera in 19 families and 6 orders.