Himantura australis Last, White & Naylor, 2016, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Last, Peter R., White, William T., Naylor, Gavin
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Myliobatiformes; Dasyatidae; Himantura; Himantura australis; Cape Lambert; Queensland; Repulse Bay
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6079647; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6079647

Himantura australis sp. nov. (Figs. 1–7; Table 1) Himantura toshi (not Whitley): Whitley, 1940: 212 (in part), brief description (misidentification). Himantura uarnak (not Gmelin): Paxton et al., 1989: 42 (listed); Last & Stevens, 1994: 406 -07, description, illustration; Last & Stevens, 2009: 449 -50, description, illustration (misidentifications). Himantura uarnak 2: Naylor et al., 2012: 70, 255 (molecular data). Himantura sp. 4: Last et al., 2016: figs. 3, 5 (molecular data). Holotype. CSIRO H 7798-04 (tissue accession GN15798), juvenile male 415 mm DW, west of Oriomo River, Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, 9°04.43’S, 143°08.53’E, 25 Oct 2014. Paratypes. 13 specimens: CSIRO H 1134-1, late embryo male 292 mm DW, north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 19°35.6’S, 118°42.8’E, 32–34 m depth, 21 Sep 1987; CSIRO H 1463-3, juvenile male 283 mm DW, north of Cape Lambert, Western Australia, 20°06.1’S, 117°21.4’ E, 41 m depth, 20 Sep 1988; CSIRO H 1920-01 (tail only), mother of CSIRO H 1463-3, North-West Shelf, Western Australia, 20 Sep 1988; CSIRO H 4016-01, neonatal female 309 mm DW, north of Cape Preston, Western Australia, 20°21.1’S, 116°07.3’E, 41–42 m depth, 25 Aug 1995; CSIRO H 4422-01, juvenile male 314 mm DW, near Proserpine, Repulse Bay, Queensland, Australia, 20°38’S, 148°41.75’E, 11 Nov 1993; CSIRO H 4542-06, juvenile male 310 mm DW, Kamora River estuary, West Papua, Indonesia, 4°49.36’S, 136°38.17’E, 5–10 m depth, 30 May 1996; CSIRO H 7839-01 (tissue accession GN15784), juvenile male 333 mm DW, Daru fish market, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, 9°03.91’S, 143°12.59’E, 21 Oct 2014; CSIRO H 7840-01 (tissue accession GN15789), juvenile male 241 mm DW, fishing camp near Daru, 9°02.26’S, 143°11.49’ E, 24 Oct 2014; NTM S 11144 -001, juvenile male 285 mm DW, King Creek, Shoal Bay, Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia, 12°21.48’S, 131°1.02’E, 15 Jan 1983; NTM S 11507 -006, juvenile male 343 mm DW, Ludmilla Creek, Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia, 12°24.78’S, 130°50.22’E, ...