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.