Sawback Skate
Leucoraja pristispina Last, Stehmann & Séret, 2008
First described in: Last, P.R.; Stehmann, M.F.W.; Séret, B. (2008). Leucoraja pristispina sp. nov., a new deepwater skate from Western Australia. In Last, P.R., W.T. White, J.J. Pogonoski and D.C. Gledhill (eds.): Descriptions of new Australian skates (Batoidea: Rajoidei) pg. 145-154. CSIRO marine and atmospheric research paper no. 021.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Leucoraja pristispina in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2419873.