Acanthostomatops

Acanthostomatops is an extinct genus of zatracheidid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian Döhlen Basin of Saxony.

== History of study == Acanthostomatops was originally named as the type species Acanthostoma vorax, in 1883. However, the genus name Acanthostoma was previously used for a polychaete worm back in 1813, and the present name was given in 1961. Detailed descriptions of the taxon were given by Steen & Brough (1937), with an emphasis on the ontogeny of the taxon based on the large sample size given by Boy (1989) and Witzmann & Schoch (2006). Werneburg (1998) described a larval specimen of A. vorax, but this was later proven to be a specimen of the micromelerpetid Branchierpeton amblystomum.