Leucoraja is a genus of hardnose skates in the family Rajidae, commonly known as the rough skates. They occur mostly on continental shelves and slopes in the north-western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the south-western Indian Ocean, and Australia.[1]
| Leucoraja | |
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| Leucoraja erinacea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Rajidae |
| Genus: | Leucoraja Malm, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| Raja fullonica Linnaeus, 1758
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| Species | |
Species
editThere are currently 16 species in this genus:[2]
- Leucoraja caribbaea (McEachran, 1977) (Maya skate)
- Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) (sandy ray)
- Leucoraja compagnoi (Stehmann, 1995) (tigertail skate)
- Leucoraja erinacea (Mitchill, 1825) (little skate)
- Leucoraja fullonica (Linnaeus, 1758) (shagreen skate)
- Leucoraja garmani (Whitley, 1939) (rosette skate)
- Leucoraja lentiginosa (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (freckled skate)
- Leucoraja leucosticta (Stehmann, 1971) (whitedappled skate)
- Leucoraja longirostris Weigmann, Stehmann, Séret & Ishihara, 2024 (brown longnose skate)[3]
- Leucoraja melitensis (R. S. Clark, 1926) (Maltese skate)
- Leucoraja naevus (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841) (cuckoo skate)
- Leucoraja ocellata (Mitchill, 1815) (winter skate)
- Leucoraja pristispina Last, Stehmann & Séret, 2008 (sawback skate)
- Leucoraja virginica (McEachran, 1977) (Virginia skate)
- Leucoraja wallacei (Hulley, 1970) (yellow-spotted skate)
- Leucoraja yucatanensis ([Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Yucatán skate)
References
edit- ^ Hamlett, W.C. (1999). Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-6048-2.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Leucoraja". FishBase. September 2024 version.
- ^ Simon Weigmann; Matthias F. W. Stehmann; Bernard Séret; Hajime Ishihara (2024). "Description of a Remarkable New Skate Species of Leucoraja Malm, 1877 (Rajiformes, Rajidae) from the Southwestern Indian Ocean: Introducing 3D Modeling as an Innovative Tool for the Visualization of Clasper Characters". Biology. 13 (6): 405. doi:10.3390/biology13060405. PMC 11200647. PMID 38927285.
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