Winter skate (Leucoraja ocellata) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Winter Skate (Leucoraja Ocellata)
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- COSEWIC History, Mandate, Membership and Definitions
- List of Figures
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status
- Summary of Status Report
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements, Authorities Contacted, and Information Sources
- Biographical Summary of Report Writer
COSEWIC
Assessment and Status Report
on the
Winter Skate
Leucoraja Ocellata
in Canada
Southern Gulf Population
Eastern Scotian Shelf Population
Georges Bank-Western Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Population
Northern Gulf-Newfoundland Population
Southern Gulf Population – Endangered
Eastern Scotian Shelf Population – Threatened
Georges Bank-Western Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Population – Special Concern
Northern Gulf-Newfoundland Population – Data Deficient
2005
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2005. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the winter skate Leucoraja ocellata in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 41 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Jerome Howlett for writing the status report on the winter skate Leucoraja ocellata prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by Jeffrey Hutchings, a COSEWIC member-at-large.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca/eng/sct5/index_e.cfm
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la raie tachetée (Leucoraja ocellata) au Canada.
Cover illustration:
Winter skate -- Drawing of Leucoraja ocellata (winter skate) from Scott & Scott (1988).
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2005
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/439-2005E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-40624-9
HTML: CW69-14/439-2005E-HTML
0-662-40625-7
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