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title: "Shagreen Skate"
description: "Leucoraja fullonica — Vissen. The shagreen ray (Leucoraja fullonica), also known as shagreen skate or fuller's ray, is a species of skate in the family Rajidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/shagreen-skate
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Shagreen Skate

> Leucoraja fullonica — Vissen. The shagreen ray (Leucoraja fullonica), also known as shagreen skate or fuller's ray, is a species of skate in the family Rajidae.

- Scientific name: *Leucoraja fullonica*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 2
- Wikidata: [Q383482](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383482)
- iNaturalist taxon: [104534](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/104534)

## Names

- en: Shagreen Skate
- de: Chagrinrochen
- es: Raya cardadora
- fr: Raie-chardon
- pl: Raja kosmata

## Summary

The shagreen ray (Leucoraja fullonica), also known as shagreen skate or fuller's ray, is a species of skate in the family Rajidae. This ray is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Murmansk, Russia through Norway, southern Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Celtic Sea, the northern North Sea and Skagerrak, to western Morocco and the Madeira archipelago, but not in the shallow waters off England and Wales. It is also recorded sporadically in the Mediterranean Sea.
Shagreen is a form of roughened untanned leather, typically dyed green and commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The common name "fuller's ray…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shagreen_ray

## Photo

![Shagreen Skate](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/shagreen-skate/medium.jpg)

Photo: Bideault · Public domain · commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leucoraja_fullonica.jpg

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/shagreen-skate?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).