Smooth skate
Leaf-nose leg skate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Rajiformes
Family: Anacanthobatidae
von Bonde & Swart, 1923
Genera[1][2]

The Anacanthobatidae, the smooth skates or leg skates, are a family of skates found at depths below 200 m (660 ft) in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.[1][3]

They lack the dorsal denticles (sharp, tooth-like scales) of other rays, hence their name, from Greek an- meaning "without", acantha meaning "thorn", and bathys meaning "deep".

They are bottom-dwelling fishes found on the continental slopes of tropical and subtropical waters.

References

  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). "Anacanthobatidae" in FishBase. February 2014 version.
  2. ^ Weigmann, S., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Thiel, R. (2014): Complementary redescription of Anacanthobatis ori (Wallace, 1967) and its assignment to Indobatis n. g. (Elasmobranchii, Anacanthobatidae), with comments on other legskates. Zootaxa, 3779 (2): 101–132.
  3. ^ Last, Peter; Weigmann, Simon; Yang, Lei (2016-11-24). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". pp. 11–34 – via ResearchGate.


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