posted on 2018-06-19, 05:00authored byArnault Le Bris, Joseph Wroblewski
Photographs. Views of the dorsal (photo 1) and ventral (photo 2) surfaces of an immature male winter skate (Leucoraja ocellata) collected from Bonne Bay on 7 July 2010. The dorsal surface has three or more rows of thorns forming an arrow pattern along the centre of the back (Nozères et al. 2010). The length of this specimen (54 cm) and size of its claspers indicate this specimen is the late-maturing type, an adaptation to coastal waters of western Newfoundland (Gauthier and Nozères 2016). (ZIP 133 kb)