The American legskate (Schroederobatis americana) is a species of cartilaginous fish, a ray, belonging to the family Anacanthobatidae, the smooth skates.

The American legskate was first formally described in 1962 as Anacanthobatis americana by Henry Bryant Bigelow and William Charles Schroeder with its type locality given as between Grenada and Venezuela at 11°35'N, 62°41'W, from a depth of 212 to 250 fathoms (1,272 to 1,500 ft; 388 to 457 m).

The anterior margin of the disk or roughly straight until it begins to curve near the rounded tips of the pectoral fins.

There is a long snout to the front of the eyes which is sharply pointed and terminates in a short, slender filament.

[7] The American legskate is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean where it occurs off Central and northern South America from Belize to Suriname, it has also been recorded off Hispaniola.