Biology:Smooth skate

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Short description: Family of cartilaginous fishes

Smooth skate
Leaf-nose leg skate ( Anacanthobatis folirostris ).jpg
Leaf-nose leg skate
Scientific classification e
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. 1.0 1.1 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311043869_Changes_to_the_nomenclature_of_the_skates_Chondrichthyes_Rajiformes. 

Wikidata ☰ Q201072 entry