An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
Author
White, William T.
Author
Ko’Ou, Alfred
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-19
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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Neotrygon picta
Last & White, 2008
Speckled Maskray
Neotrygon picta
Last & White, 2008
: 316
,
Figs 1
–4. Holotype: CSIRO H 5771-01. Type locality: east pf Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
Local synonymy:
Neotrygon
kuhldi—
Filewood, 1973
(in part): 13 (
PNG
; misspelling of
kuhlii
).
Neotrygon picta
—Last & Stevens, 2009: 455 (possibly southern New
Guinea
); Last
et al.
, 2016a: 591 (southern
PNG
);
White
et al.
, 2018
: 242, figs (
PNG
).
PNG
voucher material:
(3 spec.)
CSIRO
H 7799-01, female
200 mm
DW, west of Oriomo River,
Western Province
,
9°4’26.04” S
,
143°8’31.9” E
,
26 Oct. 2014
;
KFRS
E.759, juvenile male
140 mm
DW, east of Fly River mouth,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°37’59” S
,
144°5′23” E
,
8–9 m
depth,
13 Dec. 2014
;
USNM
218544, female
260 mm
DW, east side of Daru wharf, Daru,
Western Province
,
10 Oct. 1975
.
Remarks:
Filewood (1973)
lists
N. kuhldi
from
PNG
and mentions two forms, i.e. “either pale with speckles and usually few blue spots, or marbled with dark speckles (possibly 2 species)”; the marbled species likely refers to this species.