Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Elasmobranchii
Superordo: Rajomorphii
Ordo: Rajiformes
Familia: Rajidae
Subfamilia: Rajinae
Genus: Leucoraja
Species: L. caribbaea – L. circularis – L. compagnoi – L. elaineae – L. erinacea – L. fullonica – L. garmani – L. lentiginosa – L. leucosticta – L. melitensis – L. naevus – L. ocellata – L. pristispina – L. virginica – L. wallacei – L. yucatanensis
Name
Leucoraja Malm, 1877
Leucoraja naevus
References
Primary references
Malm, A.W. 1877. Om Daggmasker, Lumbricina. Öfversigt af Sallskapet Hortikulturens Vänners i Göteborg Förhandligar 1: 34–47. Reference page.
Additional references
Ebert, D.A. & Leslie, R.W. 2019. Leucoraja elaineae sp. nov., a new rough skate (Rajiformes: Rajidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4691(3): 225–234. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.3.3 Paywall Reference page.
Links
Zicha, Ondřej et al. Leucoraja Malm, 1877 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Leucoraja in the World Register of Marine Species
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 16 species in this genus:[2]
Leucoraja caribbaea (McEachran, 1977) (Maya skate)
Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) (sandy ray)
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) (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
Hamlett, W.C. (1999). Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-6048-2.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Leucoraja". FishBase. September 2024 version.
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.
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