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.
Species
There are currently 17 species in this genus:
- Leucoraja caribbaea <small>(McEachran, 1977)</small> (Maya skate)
- Leucoraja circularis <small>(Couch, 1838)</small> (sandy ray)
- Leucoraja compagnoi <small>(Stehmann, 1995)</small> (tigertail skate)
- Leucoraja elaineae <small>(Ebert & Leslie, 2019)</small>
- Leucoraja erinacea <small>(Mitchill, 1825)</small> (little skate)
- Leucoraja fullonica <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> (shagreen skate)
- Leucoraja garmani <small>(Whitley, 1939)</small> (rosette skate)
- Leucoraja lentiginosa <small>(Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951)</small> (freckled skate)
- Leucoraja leucosticta <small>(Stehmann, 1971)</small> (whitedappled skate)
- Leucoraja longirostris <small>Weigmann, Stehmann, Séret & Ishihara, 2024</small> (brown longnose skate)
- Leucoraja melitensis <small>(R. S. Clark, 1926)</small> (Maltese skate)
- Leucoraja naevus <small>(J. P. Müller & Henle, 1841)</small> (cuckoo skate)
- Leucoraja ocellata <small>(Mitchill, 1815)</small> (winter skate)
- Leucoraja pristispina <small>Last, Stehmann & Séret, 2008</small> (sawback skate)
- Leucoraja virginica <small>(McEachran, 1977)</small> (Virginia skate)
- Leucoraja wallacei <small>(Hulley, 1970)</small> (yellow-spotted skate)
- Leucoraja yucatanensis <small>([Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950)</small> (Yucatán skate)
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