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
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1
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journal article
30231
10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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1175-5326
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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.