bathyphila, Raja Holt [E. W. L.] & Byrne [L. W.] 1908:51 [Fisheries, Ireland, Scientific Investigations No. 5 (for 1906); ref. 6487] Northwest of Hebrides, 51°l2'30"N, 12°l8'W to 51°17'30"N, 21°16'W, Irish Atlantic Slope, depth 893-673 fathoms. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1912.3.1.108. •Valid as Raja bathyphila Holt & Byrne 1908 -- (Stehmann 1978:36 [ref. 8874], Stehmann & Bürkel in Whitehead et al. 1984:190 [ref. 13675], Scott & Scott 1988:41 [ref. 25518], Stehmann 1990:44 [ref. 19316], Nakaya in Okamura et al. 1995:54 [ref. 22531], Stehmann 1995:68 [ref. 22055], Arruda 1997:23 [ref. 24952]). •Valid as Rajella bathyphila (Holt & Byrne 1908) -- (McEachran & Dunn 1998:286 [ref. 23312], Long & McCosker 1999:49 [ref. 23764] as bathyphilia, Compagno 1999:492 [ref. 25589], Last & Stehmann 2008:135 [ref. 29652], Last & Stehmann 2008:135 [ref. 29652], Møller et al. 2010:17 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:115 [ref. 31212], Afonso et al. 2016:12, 260 [ref. 36199], Last et al. 2016:19 [ref. 34941], Last et al. 2016:335 [ref. 35000], McEachran & Séret 2016:1386 [ref. 34551], Séret 2016:1345 [ref. 34545], Weigmann 2016:121 [ref. 34211], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:47 [ref. 36370], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:153 [ref. 36791], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:151 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:48 [ref. 37250], Page et al. 2023:45 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Rajella bathyphila (Holt & Byrne 1908). Rajidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic; North Atlantic: Iceland; northeastern Atlantic: Faroes Islands south to Western Sahara, including Azores. Habitat: marine.