Ocellate spot skate
Okamejei kenojei (Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The ocellate spot skate (Okamejei kenojei), also known as the spiny rasp skate or swarthy skate, is a species of skate in the family Rajidae and is commonly found in the north-western 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.
Wikipedia contributors, Ocellate spot skate; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T08:31:51.723971+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Okamejei kenojei (Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841)
- Name authority
- (Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841)
- Common name
- Ocellate spot skate
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Family
- Rajidae
- Genus
- Okamejei
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumChondrichthyes
- classElasmobranchii
- subclassNeoselachii
- infraclassBatoidea
- orderRajiformes Berg, 1940
- familyRajidae de Blainville, 1816
- genusOkamejei Ishiyama, 1958
- speciesOkamejei kenojei (Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Okamejei. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Okamejei arafurensis Last & Gledhill, 2008 | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei cairae Last, Fahmi & Ishihara, 2010 | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei hollandi (Jordan & Richardson, 1909) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei schmidti (Ishiyama, 1958) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei acutispina (Ishiyama, 1958) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei boesemani (Ishihara, 1987) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei heemstrai (McEachran & Fechhelm, 1982) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei leptoura Last & Gledhill, 2008 | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei meerdervoortii (Bleeker, 1860) | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei mengae Jeong, Nakabo & Wu, 2007 | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okamejei ornata Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2015 | RajidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Raja atriventralis Fowler, 1934 Fowler, 1934 | synonym |
| Raja japonica Nyström, 1887 Nyström, 1887 | synonym |
| Raja karagea Tanaka, 1927 Tanaka, 1927 | synonym |
| Raja porosa Günther, 1874 Günther, 1874 | synonym |
| Raja tobae Tanaka, 1916 Tanaka, 1916 | synonym |
| Raja fusca Garman, 1885 Garman, 1885 | synonym |
| Raja katsukii Tanaka, 1927 Tanaka, 1927 | synonym |
| Raja tobae Tanaka, 1927 Tanaka, 1927 | synonym |
| Dipturus kenojei (Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841) (Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841) | synonym |
| Raja kenojei Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841 Bürger in Müller & Henle, 1841 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279183 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:KVLVL. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.