Anacanthobatis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Classis: Chondrichthyes
Subclassis: Elasmobranchii
Superordo: Rajomorphii
Ordo: Rajiformes

Familiae: Anacanthobatidae
Genus: Anacanthobatis

Subgenera: A. (Anacanthobatis) – A. (Schroederobatis) – A. (Springeria)

Species: A. americana – A. donghaiensis – A. folirostris – A. longirostris – A. marmorata
Name

Anacanthobatis von Bonde & Swart, 1923

Type species: Anacanthobatis marmoratus von Bonde & Swart, 1923

Synonyms

Leiobatis von Bonde & Swart, 1923 [preoccupied by use of Leiobatis by Blainville 1825]
Schroederobatis (subgenus of Anacanthobatis) Hulley, 1973
Springeria Bigelow & Schroeder, 1951 (subgenus of Anacanthobatis)

References

von Bonde, C. & Swart, D.B. 1923. The Platosomia (Skates and Rays) collected by the S.S. “Pickle”. Reports of the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of South Africa 3: 1–22. Reference page.

Anacanthobatis is a genus of smooth skates native to the western Indian Ocean, where found deeper than 200 m (660 ft).
Species

Several species have been assigned to this genus, but most are now placed in Sinobatis, Springeria, and Schroederobatis, leaving only A. marmoratus in Anacanthobatis.[1][2]

Anacanthobatis marmoratus (von Bonde & Swart, 1923) (spotted legskate)

References

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.
Last, P.R., Weigmann, S. & Yang, L. (2016): Changes to the nomenclature of the skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes). Seite 11 bis 34 in Last, P.R. & Yearsley, G.K. (Hrsg.) (2016): Rays of the World: Supplementary information. CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection.