Smooth skate
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| Smooth skate | |
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| File:Leaf-nose leg skate ( Anacanthobatis folirostris ).jpg | |
| Leaf-nose leg skate | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Anacanthobatidae von Bonde & Swart, 1923 |
| Genera | |
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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][2] 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.
Genera
Anacanthobatidae contains the following genera:[3]
- Sinobatis Anacanthobatis
- von Bonde & Swart, 1923 Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2014
- Hulley, 1973 Springeria
- Schroederobatis Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951
- Indobatis Hulley, 1973
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Anacanthobatidae". FishBase. June 2024 version.
- ↑ Last, Peter; Weigmann, Simon; Yang, Lei (2016-11-24). "Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes)". pp. 11–34 – via ResearchGate.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Anacanthobatidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
