Pastinachus ater
Pastinachus ater (Macleay, 1883a) Broad Cowtail Ray Taeniura atra Macleay, 1883a: 598. Holotype: AMS I.9762. Type locality: Port Moresby district, Papua New Guinea. Local synonymy: Trygon sephen— Peters, 1877: 853 (New Britain); Ogilby, 1888: 20 (southeastern New Guinea); Günther, 1910: 495 (New Bri...
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| Summary: | Pastinachus ater (Macleay, 1883a) Broad Cowtail Ray Taeniura atra Macleay, 1883a: 598. Holotype: AMS I.9762. Type locality: Port Moresby district, Papua New Guinea. Local synonymy: Trygon sephen— Peters, 1877: 853 (New Britain); Ogilby, 1888: 20 (southeastern New Guinea); Günther, 1910: 495 (New Britain); Duncker & Mohr, 1934: 84 (Seeadler Harbour, Manus). Taeniura atra Macleay, 1883a: 598 (Port Moresby district). Dasyatis sephen— Fowler, 1934: 386 (Port Moresby); Munro, 1958: 114 (New Guinea); Munro, 1967: 15, pl. 2, fig. 19 (New Guinea); Haines, 1979a: 6 (Purari Delta); Haines, 1979b: 94 (Purari Delta). Pastinachus dephen - Filewood, 1973: 12 (PNG, misspelling of sephen ). Pastinachus atrus— Last & Stevens, 2009: 456 (New Guinea). Pastinachus sephen — Allen, 1998: 67 (Milne Bay); Allen et al. , 2003: 112 (Milne Bay). Pastinachus ater— White et al. , 2018: 34, figs (PNG). PNG voucher material: (4 spec.) AMS I.9762 (holotype), female 404 mm DW, Port Moresby, 9°29’ S, 147°05’ E, 1883; KFRS E.043 (dried jaws), adult male, Rabaul, East New Britain, 1964; KFRS E.044 (dried jaws), adult male, Kairuku, Yule Island, Central Province, 18 Jan. 1965; USNM 218543, juvenile male 410 mm DW, Parama Island, Western Province, 15 Dec. 1975. Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Peters (1877) as Trygon sephen from New Britain. Macleay (1883a) described as a new species, Taeniura atra , based on a specimen collected from off Port Moresby; subsequently included in the synonymy of Pastinachus sephen but recently resurrected as a valid species. Caught occasionally by prawn trawlers and probably also by coastal fishers. Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 59, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878 |
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