Urolophus Mueller & Henle

Gordon K. Yearsley & Peter R. Last, 2006, Urolophus kapalensis sp. nov., a new stingaree (Myliobatiformes: Urolophidae) off eastern Australia., Zootaxa 1176, pp. 41-52 : 41

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z01176p041

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:17C50D3D-A7A7-428C-9C3F-F95733A3C113

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6253111

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scientific name

Urolophus Mueller & Henle
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The batoid family Urolophidae, otherwise known as stingarees, is represented in Australia by two genera Trygonoptera Mueller & Henle, 1841   ZBK and Urolophus Mueller & Henle, 1837   ZBK (Last & Stevens 1994; Last & Compagno 1999). Members of Trygonoptera   ZBK are readily identified by the presence of broad, flattened fleshy lobes on the mid-lateral margin of each nostril (lobes absent in Urolophus   ZBK ) (Last & Stevens 1994). Phylogenetically significant skeletal differences also distinguish the two genera and these are the subject of a forthcoming paper by Yearsley, Last & Gomon (in prep.).

Urolophus   ZBK contains 22 valid nominal species, with 15 recorded from Australian seas (Last & Stevens 1994, Séret & Last 2003). Two new Australian Urolophus   ZBK species were identified by Last & Stevens (1994): U. sp. B was recently described as U. piperatus Seret & Last, 2003   ZBK ; U. sp. A is described herein from specimens collected on fish surveys off eastern Australia. The new species and the sympatric U. paucimaculatus Dixon, 1969   ZBK are the only Urolophus   ZBK species with a bell-shaped internasal flap but these species differ from one another in dorsal coloration, and in a number of morphological and meristic characters.

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