Leg rays
The ray species of the family Anacanthobatidae and the genus Cruriraja are called leg rays . The reason is a division of the pelvic fins into a movable, leg-like anterior lobe and a posterior lobe, which may have grown together with the tail root.
Individual evidence
- ^ Page 221 in Wilfried Westheide & Reinhard Rieger : Special Zoology Part 2: Vertebrae and Skull Animals , 1st edition, Spectrum Academic Publishing House Heidelberg • Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0307-3
- ↑ Family Anacanthobatidae at Fishbase .org (English)
- ↑ Genus Cruriraja on Fishbase.org (English)
- ↑ Cruriraja durbanensis on Fishbase.org (English)