Bloch & Schneider, 1801 : 367
Urogymnus
Urogymnus asperrimus
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
White, William T.
Ko’Ou, Alfred
Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-19
4411
1
1
82
(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Bloch & Schneider
1801
[151,768,642,668]
Chondrichthyes
Dasyatidae
Urogymnus
GBIF
Animalia
Myliobatiformes
62
63
Chordata
species
asperrimus
Raja asperrima Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 367. Holotype: ZMB 7836 (dry skin, partial specimen). Typelocality: Mumbai, India. Local synonymy: Urogymnusafricanus— Filewood, 1973: 12 (PNG). Urogymnus asperrimus— Kailola, 1987: 29 (New Britain; Yule Island; Bougainville); Allen, 1998: 67 (Milne Bay); Allen et al., 2003: 112 (Milne Bay); Hamilton et al., 2009: 73 (northern Bismarck Archipelago); White et al., 2018: 266, figs (PNG).
PNGvoucher material:(2 spec.) KFRSE.265 (dried jaws), adult male, New Britain, Sep. 1966; KFRSE.682, juvenile male 520 mmDW, Katatai, Western Province, 9°1’15.13” S, 143°20’30.6” E, 23 Oct. 2014.
Remarks:First recorded from PNGby Filewood (1973)as Urogymnus africanus, a junior synonym of U. asperrimus. Destroyed KFRS specimens were collected from Yule Island, Hall Sound and Bougainville.