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Leucoraja

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Leucoraja

Higher classification
  
Skate

Order
  
Rajiformes

Family
  
Rajidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Elasmobranchii


Lower classifications
  
Little skate, Shagreen ray, Maltese skate, Maya skate

Little skate leucoraja erinacea embryo hatching


Leucoraja is a genus of hardnose skate in the family Rajidae with fifteen species, commonly known as the rough skates. They occur mostly on continental shelves and slopes in the western north and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the southwestern Indian Ocean, and Australia.

Contents

Twin skate leucoraja erinacea embryos


Species

  • Leucoraja caribbaea (McEachran, 1977) (maya skate)
  • Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) (sandy skate)
  • Leucoraja compagnoi (Stehmann, 1995) (tigertail skate)
  • Leucoraja erinacea (Mitchill, 1825) (little skate)
  • Leucoraja fullonica (Linnaeus, 1758) (shagreen skate)
  • Leucoraja garmani (Whitley, 1939) (freckled skate)
  • Leucoraja lentiginosa (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (speckled skate)
  • Leucoraja leucosticta (Stehmann, 1971) (whitedappled skate)
  • 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

    Leucoraja Wikipedia
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