An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea Author White, William T. Author Ko’Ou, Alfred text Zootaxa 2018 2018-04-19 4411 1 1 82 journal article 30231 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1 abf8082d-c179-4cb2-acc4-3cdef16c4341 1175-5326 1221878 255EE06E-3171-41F3-BB3D-E7D29537A292 Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1892) Chilean Devilray Cephaloptera tarapacana Philippi, 1892: 8 , Pl. 3 (fig. 2). Holotype : whereabouts unknown. Type locality: 12 miles west of Iquique , Tarapacà Province, Chile . Local synonymy: White et al. , 2018 : 292, figs (PNG). PNG voucher material: None. Remarks: No confirmed PNG specimens recorded, but recorded in the bycatch of the purse seine fishery. It is a distinctive and regularly caught devilray in pelagic fisheries in tropical Western Central Pacific waters, thus its presence in PNG is very likely.