Az Arhynchobatidae a porcos halak (Chondrichthyes) osztályába és a rájaalakúak (Rajiformes) rendjébe tartozó család.
A családba 104-105 élő faj tartozik.
Az Arhynchobatidae ráják, mint porcoshal-család minden óceánban megtalálhatók, azonban a különböző fajok előfordulási területe, csak egy-egy kis óceánrészre vagy tengerre korlátozódik. Ezek a porcos halak fajtól függően 4-342 centiméteresek.
A családba az alábbi 13 nem tartozik:
- Arhynchobatis Waite, 1909 - 1 faj; típusnem
- Atlantoraja Menni, 1972 - 3 faj
- Bathyraja Ishiyama, 1958 - 53-54 faj
- Brochiraja Last & McEachran, 2006 - 8 faj
- Insentiraja Yearsley & Last, 1992 - 2 faj
- Irolita Whitley, 1931 - 2 faj
- Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958 - 12 faj
- Pavoraja Whitley, 1939 - 6 faj
- Psammobatis Günther, 1870 - 8 faj
- Pseudoraja Bigelow & Schroeder, 1954 - 1 faj
- Rhinoraja Ishiyama, 1952 - 3 faj
- Rioraja Whitley, 1939 - 1 faj
- Sympterygia J. P. Müller & Henle, 1837 - 4 faj
- Arhynchobatidae FishBase
- Family Arhynchobatidae - Skates FishBase
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- Séret, B.; Last, P.R. 2009: Notoraja sapphira sp. nov. (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae), a new deepwater skate from the slopes of the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific). Zootaxa 2153: 24–34. Abstract & excerpt
- Séret, B.; Last, P.R. 2012: New deep water skates of the genus Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958 (Rajoidei, Arhynchobatidae) from the southwest Pacific. Zoosystema, 34(2): 319–341. doi: 10.5252/z2012n2a9
- White, W.T., Last, P.R. & Mana, R.R. 2017. A new species of velvet skate, Notoraja sereti n.sp. (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4244(2): 219–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.2.4. Reference page.
- Last, P.R.; Mallick, S.; Yearsley, G.K. 2008: A review of the Australian skate genus Pavoraja Whitley (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae). Zootaxa, 1812: 1–45.
- Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. 1837. Über die Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen nach einer ... mit Hrn. Henle unternommenen gemeinschaftlichen Arbeit über die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische. Bericht Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1837: 111–118. BHL Reference page.
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