Neotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White, & Séret, 2016

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 94

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4615008

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1-9534-FFD3-CFF7-5A9AFE3922C6

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Plazi

scientific name

Neotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White, & Séret, 2016
status

 

Neotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White, & Séret, 2016 View in CoL View at ENA k

Bluespotted Maskray

Neotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White, & Séret, 2016 View in CoL k: 546, figs. 5c, 6c, 7c, 10. Holotype: MZB unreg. (ex CSIRO H 7852-03 View Materials ). Type locality: Kedonganan   GoogleMaps fish market, Bali, Indonesia, 08°45'S, 115°10'E.

Local synonymy: Dasyatis kuhlii: Compagno & Heemstra, 1984: 1 View in CoL , fig. 9; Compagno, 1986: 137, fig. 30.2, pl. 6; Compagno et al., 1989: 104, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 117. Neotrygon kuhlii: NPOA, 2013: 60 View in CoL ; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Weigmann, 2016: 975. Neotrygon caeruleopunctata: Last et al., 2016h: 358 View in CoL ; Last et al., 2016i: 586, fig. 25.57; Last et al., 2016k: 546, figs. 5c, 6c, 7c, 10.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB [former RUSI] 14851, SAIAB [former RUSI] 17993, SAIAB [former RUSI] 18548.

South African distribution: Durban to northern KZN.

Remarks: First reported from South African waters by Compagno & Heemstra (1984) from off Durban (as Dasyatis kuhlii ). There has been considerable resolution of the “bluespotted maskray” species-complex of the Indo-West Pacific recently, but additional species are likely to be described in the future.

Conservation status: NE.

SAIAB

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

RUSI

J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology (formerly of Rhodes University)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Dasyatidae

Genus

Neotrygon

Loc

Neotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White, & Séret, 2016

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M. 2021
2021
Loc

Neotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White, & Séret, 2016

Last, White, & Seret 2016
2016
Loc

Neotrygon caeruleopunctata:

Last 2016
2016
Loc

Neotrygon kuhlii:

NPOA 2013: 60
2013
Loc

Dasyatis kuhlii

: Compagno & Heemstra 1984: 1
1984
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