Critically Endangered
Korean skate
Hongeo koreana
The Korean skate is a skate in the family Rajidae, and is the sole member of the genus Hongeo.
Appearance
The Korean skate has a relatively short, deep snout that is slightly obtuse. It has five pairs of gill slits. For fins, the Korean skate has two dorsal fins located near each other close to the tip of the tail, with a small, low caudal fin located near to the second dorsal fin.
Its tail is shorter than its body length, with a groove along the ventral midline and a well-developed lateral fold on the tail, extending to the tip of the tail.
Range and habitat
The Korean skate is found mostly in the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, in a relatively small area among them the Jeju Strait, Heuksan Islands, and Cheongsando. The species has also been found off the shore of Japan, near Tsushima Island and the Gotō Islands, but these reports are rarer. Their depth range is 30–110 metres (98–361 ft), off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, and 30–180 metres (98–591 ft) when they have been found off the coast of Japan.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The embryos feed solely on yolk when in the egg.
In crisis
It is considered Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List due to overexploitation.
Korean 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 Korean skate, Wikidata item Q5030143. 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.
