Critically Endangered
Australian longnose skate
Dentiraja confusa
Australian longnose skate, also called Longnose Skate, is a shark or ray in the family Rajidae (order Rajiformes) — Dentiraja confusa, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Australia.
The shark or ray
Sharks, rays, and guitarfishes: cartilaginous fishes with denticle skin and no true bone.
Range and habitat
The Australian longnose skate is a skate of the family Rajidae native waters off eastern Australia – New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
GBIF currently lists 1,322 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Sharks and rays grow slowly and have few young. A fishery that treats them as bycatch can empty a coastal form.
In crisis
Australian longnose skate is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Australian longnose skate — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q46638651 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
