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What is a thornback?

What is a thornback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:
    1. The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
    2. The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
    3. The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.
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It is these purses, and those of the thornback and the edible skate, that we oftenest pick up on the English coast.
For a while we thought it might be a smallish skate, but it turned out to be a nice thornback of around twelve pounds.
The best ray for eating, and the one best known in Europe, is Raja clavata, the thornback ray.
The thornback is another ugly fellow of this family, having spines on his back and a double row of them down his tail.
It's an unusual find on this coast, with thornback being the most copmmon rays, and they turn up only occasionally.
Most of the skate sold in fish shops is in fact thornback ray, and in the Southeast the fish has the local name roker.

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