Pastinachus ater
Creators
Description
Pastinachus ater (Macleay, 1883a)
Broad Cowtail Ray
Taeniura atra Macleay, 1883a: 598. Holotype: AMS I.9762. Type locality: Port Moresby district, Papua New Guinea.
Local synonymy: Trygon sephen— Peters, 1877: 853 (New Britain); Ogilby, 1888: 20 (southeastern New Guinea); Günther, 1910: 495 (New Britain); Duncker & Mohr, 1934: 84 (Seeadler Harbour, Manus). Taeniura atra Macleay, 1883a: 598 (Port Moresby district). Dasyatis sephen— Fowler, 1934: 386 (Port Moresby); Munro, 1958: 114 (New Guinea); Munro, 1967: 15, pl. 2, fig. 19 (New Guinea); Haines, 1979a: 6 (Purari Delta); Haines, 1979b: 94 (Purari Delta). Pastinachus dephen - Filewood, 1973: 12 (PNG, misspelling of sephen). Pastinachus atrus— Last & Stevens, 2009: 456 (New Guinea). Pastinachus sephen — Allen, 1998: 67 (Milne Bay); Allen et al., 2003: 112 (Milne Bay). Pastinachus ater— White et al., 2018: 34, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (4 spec.) AMS I.9762 (holotype), female 404 mm DW, Port Moresby, 9°29’ S, 147°05’ E, 1883; KFRS E.043 (dried jaws), adult male, Rabaul, East New Britain, 1964; KFRS E.044 (dried jaws), adult male, Kairuku, Yule Island, Central Province, 18 Jan. 1965; USNM 218543, juvenile male 410 mm DW, Parama Island, Western Province, 15 Dec. 1975.
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Peters (1877) as Trygon sephen from New Britain. Macleay (1883a) described as a new species, Taeniura atra, based on a specimen collected from off Port Moresby; subsequently included in the synonymy of Pastinachus sephen but recently resurrected as a valid species. Caught occasionally by prawn trawlers and probably also by coastal fishers.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KFRS , PNG , USNM
- Event date
- 1965-01-18 , 1975-12-15
- Family
- Dasyatidae
- Genus
- Pastinachus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- USNM 218543
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Macleay
- Species
- ater
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1965-01-18 , 1975-12-15
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pastinachus ater (Macleay, 1883) sec. White & Ko'Ou, 2018
References
- Gunther, A. (1910) Andrew Garrett's Fische der Sudsee. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, 3, 9, 389 - 515. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 88028
- Fowler, H. W. (1934) Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 85 (1933), 233 - 367.
- Haines, A. J. (1979 a) An ecological survey of fish of the Lower Purari River system, Papua New Guinea. Purari River (Wabo) hydroelectric scheme. Environmental Studies Volume 6. Office of Environment and Conservation, Waigani, and Department of Minerals and Energy, Konedobu, 99 pp.
- Haines, A. J. (1979 b) The subsistence fishery of the Purari Delta. Science in New Guinea, 6 (2), 80 - 104.
- Filewood, L. W. C. (1973) Guide to elasmobranch key, with notes on collection of data. Internal Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries report, Port Moresby, 18 pp.
- Allen, G. R. (1998) Reef and shore fishes of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. In: Werner, T. B. & Allen, G. R. (Eds.) A Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of the Coral Reefs of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. RAP Working Papers 11. Conservation International, Washington D. C., pp. 39 - 49 + 67 - 107.
- Allen, G. R., Kinch, J. P., McKenna, S. A. & Seeto, P. (2003) A Rapid Marine Biodiversity Assessment of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea-Survey II (2000). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, 29, 1 - 172.
- Finucci, B., White, W. T., Kemper, J. & Naylor, G. J. P. (2018) Redescription of Chimaera ogilbyi (Chimaeriformes; Chimaeridae) from the Indo-Australian region. Zootaxa, 4375, 191 - 210. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4375.2.2