Thornback skate
Raja clavata
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Rajiformes
- Family
- Rajidae
- Genus
- Raja
Where to Find
Found in 29 diving areas across 14 countries and 2 regions.
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 125 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Ksamil, Albania - 1 records
- Dubrovnik & South Coast, Croatia - 25 records
- Istria Peninsula, Croatia - 51 records
- Kornati Islands, Croatia - 410 records
- Split & Central Dalmatia, Croatia - 140 records
- Vis & Biševo, Croatia - 315 records
- Larnaca, Cyprus - 4 records
- Paphos & Coral Bay, Cyprus - 10 records
- Corsica, France - 12 records
- Marseille & Calanques, France - 327 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 479 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 769 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 1 records
- Budva & Bar, Montenegro - 29 records
- Al Hoceima, Morocco - 2 records
- Azores, Portugal - 197 records
- Balearic Islands, Spain - 20 records
- Costa Brava, Spain - 10 records
- Medes Islands, Spain - 930 records
- Baltic Coast, Sweden - 1 records
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 95 records
- Tabarka, Tunisia - 40 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 1371 records
- Northumberland & Northeast, United Kingdom - 21 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 57 records
- Scottish East Coast & Borders, United Kingdom - 8 records
- Scottish West Coast, United Kingdom - 57 records