Neotrygon australiae Last & White & Séret 2016, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Last, Peter R., White, William T., Séret, Bernard
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Myliobatiformes; Dasyatidae; Neotrygon; Neotrygon australiae; Prince of Wales Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6079665; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5F0687AAB36AFF9CFF48CAABFC30EC2F

Neotrygon australiae sp. nov. (Figs. 5b, 6b, 7b, 9; Table 1) Neotrygon kuhlii Clade 5— Puckridge et al ., 2013: p. 6. Neotrygon kuhlii 4— Naylor et al. , 2012: p. 77, fig. 58. Holotype. CSIRO H 7016-01 (tissue accession BW-A6850), juvenile male 235 mm DW, southwest of Weipa, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, 12°53.96′ S, 141°12.71′ E, 36–38 m depth, 20 Feb 2009. Paratypes. 8 specimens: CSIRO CA 3236, adult male 280 mm DW, north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 19°28.2′ S, 118°49′ E, 38–46 m depth, 20 Aug 1982; CSIRO CA 3247, adult male 379 mm DW, north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 19°36′ S, 118°22′ E, 34–36 m depth, 21 Aug 1982; CSIRO CA 4307, female 306 mm DW, northwest Australia; CSIRO H 3914-01, adult male 287 mm DW, west of Weipa, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, 12°26.9′ S, 141°27.6′ E, 28 m depth, 8 Mar 1995; CSIRO H 6144-19 (tissue accession BW-A9396), female 180 mm DW, northwest of Prince of Wales Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, 10°36.68′ S, 141°36.42′ E, 17 m depth, 16 Jan 2004; CSIRO H 7017-01 (tissue accession BW-A7794), juvenile male 180 mm DW, north of Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, 16°12.92′ S, 138°58.95′ E, 27–28 m depth, 22 Feb 2009; CSIRO H 7018-01 (tissue accession BW-A6849), female 145 mm DW, northwest of Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, 16°19.00′ S, 138°39.53′ E, 23–24 m depth, 23 Feb 2009; CSIRO T 693, juvenile male 245 mm DW, north of Wessel Islands, Northern Territory, 9°47′ S, 136°20′ E, 50 m depth, 22 Feb 1982. Other material. 12 specimens: CSIRO CA 712, adolescent male 255 mm DW, Mud Cod Bay, Northern Territory, 14°02′ S, 136°24′ E, Jun 1979; CSIRO CA 1241, female 336 mm DW, north of Admiralty Gulf, Western Australia, 12°53′ S, 125°36′ E, 83–91 m depth, 1 Apr 1981; CSIRO CA 3248, adult male 362 mm DW, northwest of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 20°00.2′ S, 117°55′ E, 34–36 m depth, 22 Aug 1982; CSIRO CA 4309, female 190 mm DW, northwest Australia; CSIRO H 959-3, juvenile male 191 mm DW, north of Wessel Islands, Northern Territory, ...