Smooth skate
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The smooth skates or leg skates are a genus, Anacanthobatis, of rays, the only genus in the family Anacanthobatidae.
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.
[edit] Species
- American leg skate, Anacanthobatis americanus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962.
- Borneo leg skate, Anacanthobatis borneensis Chan, 1965.
- East China leg skate, Anacanthobatis donghaiensis (Deng, Xiong & Zhan, 1983).
- Leaf-nose leg skate, Anacanthobatis folirostris (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951).
- Longnose leg skate, Anacanthobatis longirostris Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962.
- Spotted legskate, Anacanthobatis marmoratus (von Bonde & Swart, 1923).
- Blackbodied leg skate, Anacanthobatis melanosoma (Chan, 1965).
- South China leg skate, Anacanthobatis nanhaiensis (Meng & Li, 1981).
- Black leg skate, Anacanthobatis ori (Wallace, 1967).
- Narrow leg skate, Anacanthobatis stenosoma (Li & Hu, 1982).
[edit] References
- "Anacanthobatidae". FishBase. Ed. Rainer Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- "Anacanthobatis". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
