Pastinachus ater (Macleay 1883)
- Dataset
- An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Dasyatidae
- genus
- Pastinachus
- species
- Pastinachus ater
discussion
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Peters (1877) as Trygon sephen from New Britain. Macleay (1883 a) 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.
materials_examined
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.
Name
- Homonyms
- Pastinachus ater (Macleay 1883)