Thorny skate

Description

The thorny skate reaches up to 1.05 m (3.4 ft) in total length and 11.4 kg (25 lb) in weight.Its underside is smooth,but the upper side is,as the name suggest,very rough with many small thorns all over and 13-17 larger ones in line from the back of the head to end of the tail.The top side is brown with possibly black spots and the underside is white.It has a hard,roughly triangular snout and a tail,which is shorter than its body.It eats crustaceans,small fishes and worms.It produces egg capsules,which are 3.4-8.9 cm long and 2.3-6.8 cm wide,which hatch outside the body.