Species profile—Insentiraja laxipella (eastern looseskin skate)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Rajidae (skates) → Insentiraja laxipella (eastern looseskin skate)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Rajidae (skates)
- Scientific name
- Insentiraja laxipella (Yearsley & Last, 1992)
- Common name
- eastern looseskin skate
- Type reference
- Yearsley, G.K. and Last, P.R. (1992). Pavoraja (Insentiraja) laxipella, a new subgenus and species of skate (Chondrichthyes: Rajoidei). Copeia 839-850.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22598
- Synonym(s)
- Pavoraja laxipella
Notoraja laxipella
Pavoraja sp. A - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22598.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
