#2040 · 🦈 sharks & rays

Clearnose Skate

🇳🇱 Pinokkiorog ·Rostroraja eglanteria

LCleast concern 🦈 Sharks & rays 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © uconnbirdfish · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Hayden Shepley · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Owen West · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. New York, NY, US:© superkoolio · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Harbor Way, Belford, NJ, US:© Sinéad Tuttle-Lerner · CC BY 4.0
6. North Atlantic Ocean, NC, US:© chicatarde · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Breakwater Harbor, Lewes, DE, US:© Jessica Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Aquidneck Island, Portsmouth, RI, US:© louievatton · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Assateague Island, MD, US:© Alec Ferguson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. Gibson Beach, Southampton, NY, US:© agreenberg78 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The clearnose skate ( Raja eglanteria ) is species of cartilaginous fish in the family Rajidae. R. eglanteria is also known by other common names such as the brier skate and summer skate . Clearnose skates are easily identified by the translucent patches on either side of their snouts and their mottled dorsal surface. They are found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States in shallow waters of the continental shelf.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,644iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).