Endangered
La Plata skate
Atlantoraja platana
La Plata skate is a shark or ray in the family Arhynchobatidae (order Rajiformes) — Atlantoraja platana, recorded as Endangered.
The shark or ray
Its total length is about 60 centimeters. Males reach maturity when 86% of total length that means about 47 to 53 centimeters.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for La Plata skate on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
It is oviparous, lays oblong egg capsules with horned corners.
In crisis
It is relative rare with population trend decreasing, major threat being fishing, although it is mainly a bycatch.
La Plata 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 La Plata skate, Wikidata item Q4668467. 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.
