Smooth skate

Smooth skate

Taxobox
name = Smooth skates
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
ordo = Rajiformes
familia = Anacanthobatidae
genus = "Anacanthobatis"
genus_authority = von Bonde & Swart, 1923
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

The smooth skates or leg skates are the ray family Anacanthobatidae. It contains a single genus "Anacanthobatis", though in recent times the subgenus "Sinobatis" is occasionally elevated to full genus rank.

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.

pecies

* "Anacanthobatis americanus" Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 – American leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis borneensis" Chan, 1965 – Borneo leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis donghaiensis" (Deng, Xiong & Zhan, 1983) – East China leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis folirostris" (Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951) – Leaf-nose leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis longirostris" Bigelow & Schroeder, 1962 – Longnose leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis marmoratus" – Spotted legskate
* "Anacanthobatis melanosoma" (Chan, 1965) – Blackbodied leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis nanhaiensis" (Meng & Li, 1981) – South China leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis ori" – Black leg skate
* "Anacanthobatis stenosoma" (Li & Hu, 1982) – Narrow leg skate

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