Rough Skates
Leucoraja
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.
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 15 known species
Little Skate
speciesLeucoraja erinaceus
Winter Skate
speciesLeucoraja ocellata
Rosette Skate
speciesLeucoraja garmani
Cuckoo Skate
speciesLeucoraja naevus
Sandy Skate
speciesLeucoraja circularis
Speckled Skate
speciesLeucoraja lentiginosa
Shagreen Skate
speciesLeucoraja fullonica
Yellow-spotted Skate
speciesLeucoraja wallacei
Maltese Skate
speciesLeucoraja melitensis
Brown longnose skate
speciesLeucoraja longirostris
Tigertail Skate
speciesLeucoraja compagnoi
Leucoraja elaineae
speciesLeucoraja elaineae
White-dappled Skate
speciesLeucoraja leucosticta
Sawback Skate
speciesLeucoraja pristispina
Yucatán Skate
speciesLeucoraja yucatanensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 89503.