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Genus of cartilaginous fishes
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.
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Species
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Leucoraja caribbaea (
McEachran, 1977) (Maya skate)
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Leucoraja circularis (
Couch, 1838) (sandy skate)
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Leucoraja compagnoi (
Stehmann, 1995) (tigertail skate)
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Leucoraja erinacea (
Mitchill, 1825) (little skate)
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Leucoraja fullonica (
Linnaeus,
1758) (shagreen skate)
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Leucoraja garmani (
Whitley, 1939) (rosette skate)
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Leucoraja lentiginosa (
Bigelow &
Schroeder, 1951) (speckled skate)
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Leucoraja leucosticta (
Stehmann, 1971) (white dappled skate)
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Leucoraja melitensis (
R. S. Clark, 1926) (Maltese skate)
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Leucoraja naevus (
J. P. Müller &
Henle, 1841) (cuckoo skate)
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Leucoraja ocellata (
Mitchill, 1815) (winter skate)
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Leucoraja pristispina
Last,
Stehmann &
Séret, 2008 (sawback skate)
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Leucoraja virginica (
McEachran, 1977) (Virginia skate)
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Leucoraja wallacei (
Hulley, 1970) (yellow-spotted skate)
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Leucoraja yucatanensis (
Bigelow &
Schroeder, 1950) (Yucatán skate)
References
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^ Hamlett, W.C. (1999). Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. JHU Press.
ISBN
0-8018-6048-2.