Neotrygon Castelnau, 1873

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 362-363

Genus Neotrygon Castelnau, 1873

Maskrays / Ǚẽé

Neotrygon Castelnau, 1873: 122 . Type species: Raja trigonoides Castelnau, 1873 , by monotypy.

Neotrygon kuhlii ( Müller & Henle, 1841)

Bluespotted Maskray / ♁kǙẽ

Trygon kuhlii Müller & Henle, 1841: 164 , pl. 51 (right). Syntypes: MNHN 0000-2440 (2 spec.), Vanikoro , Solomon Islands , MNHN A7931 , New Guinea , RMNH (dry), India ?.

Local synonymy: Dasyatis kuhlii: Chen, 1948: 1 ; Chen & Chung, 1971: 37, fig. 23; Liu et al., 1985: 161, fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 160; Chen & Joung, 1993: 83, pl. 12 (fig. 2);; Shao et al., 2008: 237; Chen, 2004: 25; Chen et al., 2010: 3, figs B–D; Shen & Wu, 2011: 101

Taiwan voucher material: (14 spec.) FRIP 00341 ; FRIP 02053 ; NMMB-P 15774 , 30 Aug 2010 ; CAS 235429 , adolescent male 294 mm DW, UF 159201, adolescent male 257 mm DW, Da-xi, 24 May 2005 ; CSIRO H 6296-02 , adult male 282 mm DW, CSIRO H 6292-03 , adult male 280 mm DW, Da-xi, 25 May 2005 ; AMS I. 43793-001, 23°34' N, 119°34' E, Ma-gong, Penghu Islands , 25 May 2005 ; CSIRO H 7394-06 (tissue accession GN9948 ), adult male 288 mm DW, HUMZ 213854 (tissue accession GN9947 ), adult male 278 mm DW, MNHN 2013-0458 (tissue accession GN9945 ), female 284 mm DW, NMMB-P HO-59 (tissue accession GN9946 ), adult male 327 mm DW, NMMB-P HO-56 (tissue accession GN9943 ), adult male 284 mm DW, CAS 236070 (tissue accession GN9944 ), adult male 280 mm DW, Da-xi, 13 Mar 2012 .

Remarks: Drawing in Chen & Chung (1971) based on THUP 01258 (as Dasyatis kuhlii ); specimen whereabouts not known. Possibly a species complex. A phylogeographic study by Puckridge et al. (2013) provided further insight into the taxonomic complexity of this species complex. Populations of N. kuhlii from the Gulf of Thailand through to Taiwan are likely to be distinct species and are currently under revision by one of us ( PRL).

Conservation status: Data Deficient.