Author: (von Bonde & Swart, 1923)
FBname: Roughnose legskate
Comments: Found on the uppermost slope (Ref. 5578).  Feed on small crustaceans, dragonets, squid, polychaete worms and flatworms (Ref. 5578).  Oviparous.  Distinct pairing with embrace.  Young may tend to follow large objects, such as their mother (Ref. 205).  Eggs are oblong capsules with stiff pointed horns at the corners deposited in sandy or muddy flats (Ref. 205).  Egg capsules are 4.5 cm long and 2.4 cm wide (Ref. 41249).  Caught by hake bottom trawlers (Ref. 5578).