Species Detail - Thornback Ray (Raja clavata) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Chondrichthyans Of Ireland Restricted Records".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Raja clavata
Thornback Ray
NBNSYS0000177627 UnverifiedUnverified
Threatened Species: OSPAR Convention
racla
Linnaeus, 1758
cartilagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Species
38
21
15
19/06/1978
03/06/2012
1 January (recorded in 2011)
30 December (recorded in 2007)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Chondrichthyans Of Ireland Restricted Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Thornback Ray (Raja clavata), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/263/Species/15567>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)