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During the past two years in the course of the fishery survey programs conducted by the Fisheries Research Station of the Agriculture and Fisheries Department (f ormerly known as the Co-operative Development & Fisheries Department) of the Hong Kong Government, the RV/Cape St. Mary has fished the Continental Shelf in the northern part of the South China Sea. In addition to the numerous trawl hauls made in shallow grounds where commercial fish species occur, a series of “deep” stations have been made with AGASSIZ nets. During Cruise 1/64 early in 1964, a number of deep-sea fishes were collected off the edge of the Continental Shelf in depths from 314 to 530 fathoms. Among these fishes is an anacanthobatid skate, which has been confirmed as a new species of the currently monotypic genus Springeria BIGELOW and SCHROEDER (1951). With the discovery of this new skate, the family Anacanthobatidae is now represented by two genera and five species, and its distribution has become world-wide.
To facilitate comparison the present species is described following the plan and sequence of presentation of proportional and descriptive characters used in BIGELOW and SCHROEDER (1951), Methods of taking measurements have also been adopted from these authors.
