Scientific Name	Sinobatis melanosoma			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	(Chan, 1965)	Depth	500 - 1100M
Chinese	黑體海灣無鰭鰩	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鰩科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F048　Rajidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	黑體海灣無鰭鰩
Max Length	59 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	魴仔、黑體施氏鰩、黑身司氏裸鯆
Distribution in World	North West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	South West、Tung Sa IS.
Habitats	Deep Sea、Benthos	Holotype Locality	South China Sea, about 170 miles south of Hong Kong, 19°20'N, 114°13' to 16'E, depth 500-530 fathoms
Synonyms	Anacanthobatis melanosoma, Springeria melanosoma
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；Fishbase(2005)  Chan, W. L. 1965 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993
Specimen List
Common Name	Blackbodied leg skate
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Disc broader than long, anterior margins smoothly and slightly convex, posterior margins broadly rounded. Snout nearly 1.4 in head/ end of snout with a small expansion, terminating in a short, slender filament. Eyes small, 7.0 to 7.4 in snout. Spiracles smaller than eyes, a short distance behind eyes. Mouth straight, corners of its mandible smoothly arched forward. Teeth small, with a roundish base and a pointed tip. Gill openings small. Dorsal side smooth, with numbers minute sensory pores, without denticles. Dorsal absent. Tail slender, slightly compressed dorsoventrally in the anterior portion, rounded in the mid-potion, slightly compressed in the distal potion. Two leg-like appendages, compressed, with one articulation in the midway, with an inner edge of the terminal segment scalloped, corresponding to the tips of three radical cartilages. Specimen in formalin blackish-brown on the dorsal and ventral. Mouth pale. Leg-like appendage pale.
habitats
Distribution	South China Sea, Taiwan.
Utility	NULL