Himantura leoparda Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 55

Himantura leoparda Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008

Leopard Whipray

Himantura leoparda Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008: 294 , Figs 1 –4. Holotype: CSIRO H 2903-01. Type locality: northwest of Weipa, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.

Local synonymy: Himantura leoparda— Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2008: 293 (PNG); White et al., 2018: 230, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (7 spec.) CSIRO H 7614-12, juvenile male 380 mm DW, south of Kerema, Gulf of Papua, 8°3’1.2” S, 145°45’7.2” E, 16–17 m depth, 20 Jun. 2014; CSIRO H 7807-02, juvenile male 420 mm DW, southwest of Kerema, Gulf of Papua, 8°2’22.2” S, 145°37’13.2” E, 15–16 m depth, 15 Jun. 2014; CSIRO H 7809- 0 1, juvenile male 400 mm DW, south of Kerema, Gulf of Papua, 8°1’53.4” S, 145°43’0.6” E, 16–18 m depth, 18 Jun. 2014; CSIRO H 7820-01, juvenile male 400 mm DW, south of Deception Bay, Gulf of Papua, 8°7’ S, 144°29’ E, 18 m depth, 1 Dec. 2014; KFRS E.643, juvenile male 450 mm DW, east of Fly River mouth, Gulf of Papua, 8°34’22” S, 144°4’31” E, 9 m depth, 1 Apr. 2015; KFRS E.722, juvenile male 400 mm DW, south of Kerema, Gulf of Papua, 8°2’9.6” S, 145°42’29.4” E, 14–15 m depth, 17 Jun. 2014; KFRS E.747, female 470 mm DW, east of Fly River mouth, Gulf of Papua, 8°36’ S, 144°1’ E, 11–15 m depth, 11 Dec. 2014.

Remarks: First listed as from PNG in Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last (2008); first confirmed record based on specimens. Common in bycatch of the Gulf of Papua prawn trawl fishery.

Figures

FIGURE 1. The current location of the KFRS collection in the biological sciences area of the University of PNG.