thornback ray, thornback skate (Raja clavata) Thornback (Raia clavata)
Subject: Skates (Fishes)
Tag: Fish
Date 1904
Author Reinhold Thiele (1856–1921)
Source/Photographer
English: F G Aflalo (1904) British Salt-Water Fishes, London: Hutchinson & Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_51235_Thornback_(Raia_clavata).jpeg
The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata) is a species of fish in the Rajidae family. Raja clavata is found in coastal waters of Europe and the Atlantic coast of Africa, possibly as far south as Namibia and even South Africa.
