title: Leucoraja
text: # Leucoraja
  
  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)
  