Springeria folirostris Bigelow and Schroeder, 1951

Jones, Christian M., Driggers Iii, William B., Hannan, Kristin M., Hoffmayer, Eric R., Jones, Lisa M. & Raredon, Sandra J., 2020, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyan fishes inhabiting the northern Gulf of Mexico Part 1: Batoidea, Zootaxa 4803 (2), pp. 281-315 : 296

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.3
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scientific name	Springeria folirostris Bigelow and Schroeder, 1951
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Springeria folirostris Bigelow and Schroeder, 1951 b—leafnose legskate

Synonyms: Anacanthobatis folirostris Bigelow and Schroeder, 1951b

Distribution. This species has been proposed to be endemic to the northern GOM by several authors ( e.g. McEachran and Fechhelm 1998, Last et al. 2016). However, several specimens (UF 3984, IBUNAM-P9865, USNM 222431) have been collected from the southern GOM and a single individual (FMNH 90092) was collected from the continental slope off Honduras. In the northern GOM, this species occurs on the continental slope from the Texas/ Mexico border to off northwestern Florida at depths ranging from 300 to 510 m.

First Record in GOM. The description of this species ( Bigelow and Schroeder, 1951b) was based on two specimens ( holotype USNM 152546 About USNM , Figure 13 View FIGURE 13 , and paratype MCZ 37160) both collected in the same general area, on the continental slope off the mouth of the Mississippi River, in 1950.

Remarks. This is a deep water species that is rarely captured and, therefore, little is known of their biology.

Conservation Status. Data Deficient (as Anacanthobatis folirostris )