cortezensis, Raja McEachran [J. D.] & Miyake [T.] 1988:877, Figs. 1-6 [Copeia 1988 (no. 4); ref. 16259] Off Punta Conceptión, Gulf of California, Mexico, 26°57.0'N, 111°49.8'W. Holotype: LACM 8842-16. Paratypes: LACM 8842-20 (5), SIO 65-250 (1), UCLA W53-82 (2). •Valid in an unnamed new genus -- (Compagno 1999:492 [ref. 25589]). •Valid as Raja cortezensis McEachran & Miyake 1988 -- (McEachran in Fischer et al. 1995:776 [ref. 22829], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:37 [ref. 22793], McEachran & Dunn 1998:286 [ref. 23312], Nelson et al. 2004:56 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:56 [ref. 32708], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:117 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:118 [ref. 34211]). •Valid as Beringraja cortezensis (McEachran & Miyake 1988) -- (Last et al. 2016:20 [ref. 34941], Last et al. 2016:219 [ref. 35000], Ehemann et al. 2018:25 [ref. 36194], González-Acosta et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38361], Page et al. 2023:44 [ref. 40505]). •Valid as Caliraja cortezensis (McEachran & Miyake 1988) -- (Ebert 2022:4 [ref. 39689], Fricke et al. 2024:89 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Caliraja cortezensis (McEachran & Miyake 1988). Rajidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California endemic (Mexico). Habitat: marine.