Animal Diversity Web

Dipturus whitleyi

Great skate

(Also: Melbourne skate; Rough skate; Skate; Wedgenose skate)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Class Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, and relatives)
        
        Elasmobranchii
        
        Order Rajiformes
        
        Family Rajidae (Skates)
        
        Genus Dipturus
        
        Species Dipturus whitleyi (Great skate)