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 15 species in this genus:
Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) (sandy ray) Leucoraja compagnoi (Stehmann, 1995) (tigertail skate) Leucoraja elaineae (Ebert & Leslie, 2019) Leucoraja erinaceus (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) 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 wallacei (Hulley, 1970) (yellow-spotted skate) Leucoraja yucatanensis ([Bigelow & Schroeder, 1950) (Yucatán skate) Synonyms Leucoraja caribbaea (McEachran, 1977) (Maya skate); valid as L. garmani Leucoraja virginica (McEachran, 1977) (Virginia skate); valid as L. garmani
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