Raja Linnaeus [C.] 1758:231 Fem. Raja miraletus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bonaparte 1838:7 (of separate) [ref. 4979]. Also appeared as new (sensu Bellonius) in Billberg 1833:51 [ref. 34146]; see Kullander 2016:107 [ref. 34147]. Spelled Raia or Raya by authors. •Valid as Raja Linnaeus 1758 -- (Stehmann 1973:58 [ref. 7168], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:13 [ref. 6441], Hulley 1986:118 [ref. 5672], Ishihara 1987 [ref. 6264], Cappetta 1987:143 [ref. 6348] including fossils, Paxton et al. 1989:56 [ref. 12442], Stehmann & Bürkel 1990:94 [ref. 21679], Miller 1993:479 [ref. 21297], Gomon et al. 1994:161 [ref. 22532], Stehmann 1995:36 [ref. 22055], Jeong et al. 1995:207 [ref. 22733], McEachran & Dunn 1998:280 [ref. 23312], Last & Compagno 1999:1453 [ref. 24639], Compagno 1999:492 [ref. 25589], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:94 [ref. 25968], Last & Yearsley 2002:1629 [ref. 26568], McEachran & Carvalho 2003:537 [ref. 26985], Genz et al. 2007:1 [ref. 29332], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:13 [ref. 36649], Ishihara et al. 2012:19 [ref. 31844], Parin et al. 2014:37 [ref. 33547], Dyldin 2015:72 [ref. 34524], Pietsch & Orr 2015:17 [ref. 34694], Last & Séret 2016:477 [ref. 34640], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:117 [ref. 34398], Last et al. 2016:209 [ref. 35000], Fricke et al. 2018:24 [ref. 35805], Ebert et al. 2021:83 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Raja Linnaeus 1758. Rajidae.