Deep-water skates of Madagascar. Part 1. Anacanthobatidae (Pisces, Chondrlchthyes, Batoidea), second record of the skate Anacanthobatis ori (Wallace, 1967) from off Madagascar

During the trawling survey for shrimp fisheries undertaken by the ORSTOM Center in Nosy-Be (small island of Madagascar) from 1971 to 1975, twelve specimens of deep-water skates were collected off the West coast of Madagascar (part of A. Crosnier’s collection). Two are referred to Anacanthobatis ori (Wallace, 1967), previously known only from the type-specimens (holo- and paratype) reported from off Bazaruto Island (Mozambique). A. ori is compared with its congeners so far described from the Indo-Pacific region and from the Western Central Atlantic.