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Ocellate spot skate

Ocellate spot skate
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Okamejei
Species: O. kenojei
Binomial name
Okamejei kenojei
(Müller & Henle, 1841)
Synonyms

Raja fusca Garman, 1885
Raja japonica Nyström, 1887
Raja karagea Tanaka, 1927
Raja katsukii Tanaka, 1927
Raja kenojei Müller & Henle, 1841
Raja porosa Günther, 1874
Raja tobae Tanaka, 1916


Raja fusca Garman, 1885
Raja japonica Nyström, 1887
Raja karagea Tanaka, 1927
Raja katsukii Tanaka, 1927
Raja kenojei Müller & Henle, 1841
Raja porosa Günther, 1874
Raja tobae Tanaka, 1916

The ocellate spot skate, spiny rasp skate, or swarthy skate, (Okamejei kenojei) is a species of skate, family Rajidae, common in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. O. kenojei is a bottom-feeding carnivore that consumes mainly shrimp, fishes, and crabs. Its diet also includes small quantities of amphipods, mysids, cephalopods, euphausiids, copepods, isopods, and polychaetes.



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