Leucoraja

Leucoraja
Leucoraja erinacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Rajiformes
Family:	Rajidae
Genus:	Leucoraja Malm, 1877
Type species
Raja fullonica Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text

Cuckoo ray, Leucoraja naevus

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 17 species in this genus: ^[2]

• Leucoraja caribbaea (McEachran, 1977) (Maya skate)
• Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) (sandy ray)
• Leucoraja compagnoi (Stehmann, 1995) (tigertail skate)
• Leucoraja elaineae (Ebert & Leslie, 2019)
• 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

1. Hamlett, W.C. (1999). Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. JHU Press. ISBN   0-8018-6048-2.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Leucoraja". FishBase . September 2024 version.
3. 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.