Leucoraja
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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]
Species
There 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
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