Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Raja Linnaeus, 1758

Raja brachyura Lafont, 1873
En: Blonde ray - Du: Blonde rog

Rare species off the Dutch coast (Nijssen & de Groot, 1987, p. 63), nowadays almost disappeared (Nijssen, 2001, p. 44). Today egg-capsules of R. brachyura rarely wash ashore in the Netherlands (Bor, 1998, p. 28).

Fisheries data:

1960 Texel, no further details (Nijssen & de Groot, 1987, p. 63).
December 1950 Diepe Gat, Texel, no further details (Nijssen & de Groot, 1987, p. 63).
1949 Texel, no further details (Nijssen & de Groot, 1987, p. 63).
May 1948 Texel, no further details (Nijssen & de Groot, 1987, p. 63).


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