Biology:Black legskate
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Short description: Species of cartilaginous fish
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Rajiformes |
| Family: | Anacanthobatidae |
| Genus: | Indobatis Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2014 |
| Species: | I. ori
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| Binomial name | |
| Indobatis ori (J. H. Wallace, 1967)
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The black legskate (Indobatis ori)[2] is a species of smooth skate native to the Indian Ocean off of Madagascar and Mozambique. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Indobatis. It inhabits the continental slope at depths of from 1,000 to 1,725 metres (3,281 to 5,659 ft). This species can reach a length of 21 centimetres (8.3 in). It is dark-colored, greyish-black or brownish on the dorsum, ventrally lighter.[3]
References
- ↑ Pollom, R.; Gledhill, K.; Jabado, R.W. (2019). "Indobatis ori". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T44601A124434540. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T44601A124434540.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/44601/124434540. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Anacanthobatis ori" in FishBase. February 2014 version.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2710761 entry
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