Endangered
Grey skate
Dipturus canutus
Grey skate is a shark or ray in the family Rajidae (order Rajiformes) — Dipturus canutus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The grey skate is a medium-sized member of the genus, reaching 90 centimetres (35 in) TL. It has grey upperparts, with the snout lateral to the rostral cartilage slightly paler, and paler grey to whitish underparts, with well-demarkated dark markings around the cloaca, internasal flap and chin. The grey skate is a fish in the family Rajidae.
It was described in 2008 by Australian ichthyologist Peter R.
Range and habitat
It is found in temperate waters off southern Australia, from Eucla in Western Australia around to Crowdy Head on the New South Wales north coast. In Tasmanian waters, it has been found from Strahan around to Maria Island, but is not in Bass Strait.
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
Grey skate is 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 Grey skate, Wikidata item Q5028414. 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.
