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(
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In total, five specimens of
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were examined. These came from fish markets in Palkanththura (SL-4) and Puttalam (SL-16) in the
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, from Jaffna (SL-50, SL-51) in the
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. The latter specimen was deposited in the BRT Ichthyology Collection (BRT-I 0017). All five specimens lacked a dorsal fin. However, some morphological variation was seen across the five specimens. A tiny spine was present on the tails of three (SL-16, SL-50, and SL- 75) specimens. The tails of all five specimens were cross-banded, but the number of bands varied from 911. In some specimens—mainly small specimens of less than
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DW—a single black dot was present between the bands (
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DW—a dark spot surrounded by four smaller dark spots was present between each band and the dark band had a central white spot (
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). However, the five specimens from
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1, and
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2), all five specimens from
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grouped in a tight cluster with our reference specimen of
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2 (MM-22;
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. The Sri Lankan specimens differed from this specimen by 35 bp, suggesting they are likely conspecific.
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To expand taxon representation to include
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, data for a specimen of
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<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0EEBFB04FA12FB1C" box="[1213,1436,1156,1181]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">Gymnura poecilura</emphasis>
(Shaw)
</taxonomicName>
(
<accessionNumber id="A1D704C7DA2A3E4C0AAEFB26FEF7FB41" box="[248,377,1191,1216]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/KU821581" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">KU821581</accessionNumber>
) from its type locality in Visakhapatnam on the eastern coast of
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C0E35FB26FB13FB41" box="[1123,1181,1191,1216]" name="India" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">India</collectingCountry>
(see
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Eschmeyer
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0F34FB28FA12FB41" box="[1378,1436,1191,1216]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
2018
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), and a specimen identified as
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<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C087FFB4CFDCFFB65" box="[553,577,1229,1252]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C083DFB4DFD58FB64" box="[619,726,1228,1253]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<accessionNumber id="A1D704C7DA2A3E4C08B3FB4DFCEAFB64" box="[741,868,1228,1253]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/KU821578" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">KU821578</accessionNumber>
) from
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C09E6FB4DFB81FB64" box="[944,1039,1228,1253]" name="India" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">Mumbai</collectingCountry>
on the western coast of
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C0F48FB4DFAD4FB64" box="[1310,1370,1228,1253]" name="India" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">India</collectingCountry>
, were obtained from GenBank. These sequences, which are only 677 and 644 bp in length, respectively, were generated by
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0AECFA95FE2DFAAD" author="Muktha" box="[186,419,1300,1325]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Muktha" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="1085 - 1096" refId="ref19224" refString="Muktha, M., Akhilesh, K. V., Sandhya, S., Jasmin, F., Jishnudev, M. A. &amp; Kizhakudan, S. J. (2018 [online: 2016]) Re-description of the longtail butterfly ray, Gymnura poecilura (Shaw, 1804) (Gymnuridae: Myliobatiformes) from Bay of Bengal with a neotype designation. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1085 - 1096." type="journal article" year="2018">
Muktha
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0B4EFA94FEDFFAAC" box="[280,337,1300,1325]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
(2018)
</bibRefCitation>
to help inform a redescription of
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C0948FA94FC26FAAC" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[798,936,1300,1325]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0948FA94FC26FAAC" box="[798,936,1300,1325]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G. poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in which a
<typeStatus id="613F2786DA2A3E4C0E7AFA94FB0BFAAC" box="[1068,1157,1301,1325]" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" type="neotype">neotype</typeStatus>
was designated. In total,
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0AC1FAB6FE03FAD1" author="Muktha" box="[151,397,1335,1360]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Muktha" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="1085 - 1096" refId="ref19224" refString="Muktha, M., Akhilesh, K. V., Sandhya, S., Jasmin, F., Jishnudev, M. A. &amp; Kizhakudan, S. J. (2018 [online: 2016]) Re-description of the longtail butterfly ray, Gymnura poecilura (Shaw, 1804) (Gymnuridae: Myliobatiformes) from Bay of Bengal with a neotype designation. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1085 - 1096." type="journal article" year="2018">
Muktha
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0AACFAB8FEB9FAD1" box="[250,311,1335,1360]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
(2018)
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presented NADH2 data for five specimens of
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C09EAFAB9FBC4FAD1" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[956,1098,1335,1360]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09EAFAB9FBC4FAD1" box="[956,1098,1335,1360]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G. poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Visakhapatnam, which differed from one another by 07 bp, but unfortunately they failed to indicate which, if any, of these specimens was the
<typeStatus id="613F2786DA2A3E4C0A95FA00FE91FA18" box="[195,287,1409,1433]" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" type="neotype">neotype</typeStatus>
. In the tree resulting from our Neighbor-Joining analysis, the specimen of
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C0EDCFA01FA96FA19" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[1162,1304,1407,1432]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0EDCFA01FA96FA19" box="[1162,1304,1407,1432]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G. poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C0F34FAFEFA12FA19" box="[1378,1436,1407,1432]" name="India" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">India</collectingCountry>
grouped well away from the specimens from
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C08CAFA25FC80FA3C" box="[668,782,1444,1469]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">Sri Lanka</collectingCountry>
, supporting the identity of the Sri Lankan specimens as a taxon other than
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C0B0FFA49FE6AFA61" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[345,484,1479,1504]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0B0FFA49FE6AFA61" box="[345,484,1479,1504]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G. poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Moreover, the specimen identified as
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C09F5FA49FBDDFA61" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[931,1107,1479,1504]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09F5FA49FC35FA5E" box="[931,955,1480,1503]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09BEFA46FBDDFA61" box="[1000,1107,1479,1504]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C0ECDFA46FB5BFA61" box="[1179,1237,1479,1504]" name="India" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">India</collectingCountry>
by
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0F54FA46FF6FF985" author="Muktha" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Muktha" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="1085 - 1096" refId="ref19224" refString="Muktha, M., Akhilesh, K. V., Sandhya, S., Jasmin, F., Jishnudev, M. A. &amp; Kizhakudan, S. J. (2018 [online: 2016]) Re-description of the longtail butterfly ray, Gymnura poecilura (Shaw, 1804) (Gymnuridae: Myliobatiformes) from Bay of Bengal with a neotype designation. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1085 - 1096." type="journal article" year="2018">
Muktha
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0F34FA48FA12FA61" box="[1378,1436,1479,1504]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
(2018)
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clustered with the specimens from
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C082AFA6DFD61F984" box="[636,751,1516,1541]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">Sri Lanka</collectingCountry>
, suggesting that
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C09E6FA6CFBECF984" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[944,1122,1516,1541]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09E6FA6CFC46F985" box="[944,968,1517,1540]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09A1FA6DFBECF984" box="[1015,1122,1516,1541]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
2 occurs in both countries. The Sri Lankan specimens differed by 34 bp across the 644 bp available for this specimen.
</paragraph>
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This species is typically referred to in
<collectingCountry id="C693D9B4DA2A3E4C08D4F9B5FD7CF9CC" box="[642,754,1588,1613]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">Sri Lanka</collectingCountry>
as
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C094DF9B4FC29F9CC" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[795,935,1588,1613]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C094DF9B4FC29F9CC" box="[795,935,1588,1613]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G. poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(e.g.,
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C09A4F9B4FB17F9CD" author="De Silva" box="[1010,1177,1588,1613]" firstAuthor="De Silva" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="301 - 306" refId="ref17494" refString="De Silva, R. I. (1978) Some skates and rays of Sri Lanka. Loris, 14, 301 - 306." type="journal article" year="1978">De Silva 1978</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0EF0F9B5FB6FF9CC" author="De Silva" box="[1190,1249,1588,1613]" firstAuthor="De Silva" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="294 - 301" refId="ref17594" refString="De Silva, R. I. (2006) Taxonomy and status of the sharks and rays of Sri Lanka. In: Bambaradeniya, C. N. B. (Ed.), The Fauna of Sri Lanka: Status of Taxonomy, Research and Conservation. The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Sri Lanka and Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, pp. 294 - 301." type="book chapter" year="2006">2006</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0EB9F9B4FF5CF9F1" author="De Bruin" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="De Bruin" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" refId="ref17417" refString="De Bruin, G. H. P., Russell, B. C. &amp; Bogusch, A. (1995) FAO Species Identification Field Guide for Fisheries Purposes. The Marine Fishery Resources of Sri Lanka. FAO, Rome, Italy, 400 pp." type="book" year="1995">
De Bruin
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0F34F9B4FA12F9CC" box="[1378,1436,1588,1613]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
1995
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0A88F9D9FE23F9F1" author="Moron" box="[222,429,1623,1648]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Moron" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="142 - 157" refId="ref19181" refString="Moron, J., Bertrand, B. &amp; Last, P. (1998) A check-list of sharks and rays of western Sri Lanka. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 40, 142 - 157." type="journal article" year="1998">
Morón
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0B67F9D8FEE4F9F1" box="[305,362,1623,1648]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
1998
</bibRefCitation>
). However, it is more accurately referred to as
<taxonomicName id="7984E2A7DA2A3E4C09EDF9D9FBE7F9F1" baseAuthorityName="Shaw" baseAuthorityYear="1804" box="[955,1129,1623,1648]" class="Chondrichthyes" family="Dasyatidae" genus="Gymnura" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Myliobatiformes" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="poecilura">
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09EDF9D9FC5AF9EE" box="[955,980,1624,1647]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G.</emphasis>
cf.
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C09A8F9D6FBE7F9F1" box="[1022,1129,1623,1648]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<quantity id="797C34C1DA2A3E4C0E27F9D9FB12F9F1" box="[1137,1180,1623,1648]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.08" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" unit="in" value="2.0">2 in</quantity>
recognition of the fact that the Sri Lankan form appears to represent this undescribed species. As noted above,
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<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0EC4F9FCFA90F914" box="[1170,1310,1660,1685]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">G. poecilura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
appears to represent a complex of genetically diverse, yet morphologically similar butterfly rays (
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0EF6F91EFA1FF939" author="Naylor" box="[1184,1425,1695,1720]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Naylor" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="1 - 262" refId="ref19577" refString="Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. &amp; Last, P. R. (2012 a) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 367, 1 - 262." type="journal article" year="2012" yearSuffix="a">
Naylor
<emphasis id="8CF04536DA2A3E4C0EAAF920FAB5F939" box="[1276,1339,1695,1720]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="217">et al.</emphasis>
2012a
</bibRefCitation>
). Examination of additional specimens from throughout its current nominal distribution (
<bibRefCitation id="DA15E4D5DA2A3E4C0E34F945FA96F95C" author="Last, P. R. &amp; Naylor, G. J. P. &amp; Manjaji-Matsumoto, B. M." box="[1122,1304,1732,1757]" pageId="16" pageNumber="217" pagination="345 - 368" refId="ref18604" refString="Last, P. R., Naylor, G. J. P. &amp; Manjaji-Matsumoto, B. M. (2016 a) A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights. Zootaxa, 4139, 345 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4139.3.2" type="journal article" year="2016">Last et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
) is required to fully resolve the taxonomy of this group.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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