The leaf-nose leg skate (''Springeria folirostris'') is a species of ray in the family

Anacanthobatidae The Anacanthobatidae, the smooth skates or leg skates, are a family of skates found at depths below in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. They lack the dorsal denticles (sharp, tooth-like scales) of other rays, hence their name, from Gr ...

, native to depths of in the

Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United S ...

. It was originally described in the genus '' Springeria'', but this was later considered a subgenus of ''

Anacanthobatis ''Anacanthobatis'' is a genus of smooth skates native to the western Indian Ocean, where found deeper than . Species Several species have been assigned to this genus, but most are now placed in ''Sinobatis ''Sinobatis'' is a genus of rays in ...

''. In 2016 ''Springeria'' was again elevated to full genus status.

References

*John D. McEachran and Katherine A. Dunn, ''Phylogenetic Analysis of Skates, a Morphologically Conservative Clade of Elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae)''. Copeia, vol. 1998, no. 2, pp. 271–290.

External links

Species Description of Springeria folirostris at www.shark-references.com
leaf-nose leg skate Gulf of Mexico Taxa named by Henry Bryant Bigelow Taxa named by William Charles Schroeder leaf-nose leg skate {{Rajiformes-stub