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Leucoraja
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Leucoraja erinacea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Rajidae
Genus: Leucoraja
Malm, 1877
Species

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Leucoraja naevus Gervais (1877)
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.

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) (rosette skate)
  • Leucoraja lentiginosa (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) (speckled skate)
  • Leucoraja leucosticta (Stehmann, 1971) (white dappled 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)
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