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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

[Ichthyology • 2017] Diagnostic Description and Geographic Distribution of Four New Cryptic Species of the Blue-spotted Maskray Species Complex (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae; Neotrygon spp.) based on DNA Sequences; Neotrygon bobwardi, N. malaccensis, N. moluccensis & N. westpapuensis ---ScRaBBlE


Fig.2 Holotypes of four new maskray species previously under Neotrygon kuhlii (Müller and Henle, 1841)
a. Neotrygon bobwardi sp. nov., No. MZB-20843 from Meulaboh, Aceh; male, 40 cm DW (photograph by ISA); b. Neotrygon malaccensis sp. nov., No. MZB-20847 from Kuala Lama, Malacca Strait; female, 40 cm DW (photograph by ISA); c. Neotrygon moluccensis sp. nov., No. MZB-20866 from Tual, Kei Islands; female, 30.5 cm DW; d. Neotrygon westpapuensis sp. nov., No. MZB-20867 from Biak, West Papua; female, 36 cm DW.

 Borsa, Arlyza, Hoareau & Shen, 2017

Abstract 

Nine morphologically similar but genetically distinct lineages in the blue-spotted maskray species complex, previously Neotrygon kuhlii (Müller and Henle) qualify as cryptic species. Four of these lineages have been previously described as Neotrygon australiae Last, White and SéretNeotrygon caeruleopunctata Last, White and SéretNeotrygon orientale Last, White and Séret, and Neotrygon varidens (Garman), but the morphological characters used in the descriptions off ered poor diagnoses and their geographic distributions were not delineated precisely. The objective of the present work is to complete the description of the cryptic species in the complex. Here, an additional four lineages are described as new species on the basis of their mitochondrial DNA sequences: Neotrygon bobwardi, whose distribution extends from the northern tip of Aceh to the western coast of Sumatera; Neotrygon malaccensis, sampled from the eastern part of the Andaman Sea and from the Malacca Strait; Neotrygon moluccensis, from the eastern half of the Banda Sea; and Neotrygon westpapuensis from the central portion of northern West Papua. The geographic distributions of N. australiae, N. coeruleopunctata, N. orientale, and N. varidens are updated. For each species, a diagnosis is provided in the form of a combination of private or partly-private nucleotides at 2–4 nucleotide sites along a 519-base pair fragment of the CO1 gene. We believe that the present taxonomic revision will provide information relevant to the sound management and conservation of cryptic species of the blue-spotted maskray in the Coral Triangle region.

Keyword : molecular taxonomy; diagnosis; distribution



Neotrygon bobwardi sp. nov. 
Clade II (Borsa et al., 2016b);
Neotrygon kuhlii clade II (Arlyza et al., 2013a; Borsa et al., 2016a);
Neotrygon kuhlii (Borsa et al., 2013a).

Distribution: the type locality of N. bobwardi sp. nov. is Meulaboh, northwestern coast of Sumatra Island. Based on present study, its distribution includes the northern tip of the Aceh region and all the western coast of Sumatra south to Padang. 

Etymology: the species is named after Robert D. (Bob) Ward, one of the leaders of the fi sh barcoding initiative (Ward et al., 2009). One of his noted contributions in this fi eld was the DNA-barcoding survey of Australian chondrichthyans, which included bluespotted maskray samples from the Coral Triangle region (Ward et al., 2008). R. D. Ward and co-authors suspected the occurrence of cryptic species within the nominal species N. kuhlii, based on an unusually high level of genetic divergence among geographic populations, at the CO1 locus. We chose to name after him the bluespotted maskray species that occurs on the Indian-Ocean coast of Sumatra, as an acknowledgement of his contribution to the systematics of chondrichthyans.

 Proposed vernacular names: Bob Ward’s bluespotted maskray (English); pari masker totol biru Pak Bob (Indonesian); raie pastenague à points bleus de Bob Ward (French).


Neotrygon malaccensis sp. nov. 
Clade III (Borsa et al., 2016b);
Neotrygon kuhlii clade III (Arlyza et al., 2013a; Borsa et al., 2016a);
Neotrygon kuhlii clade 7 (Puckridge et al., 2013);
Neotrygon kuhlii (Borsa et al., 2013a). 

Distribution: the type locality of N. malaccensis sp. nov. is Kuala Lama, Malacca Strait (03°39′N, 98°59′E). Specimens of the same species were sampled from Perbaungan, a neighbouring locality in the Malacca Strait and from the western coast of the Kra isthmus, Thailand. Known distribution, based on present study: northern part of Malacca Strait and eastern Andaman Sea.

 Etymology: epithet malaccensis refers to the geographic origin of the type material, the Malacca Strait. It is the latinized geographical adjectival form of noun “Malacca”. 

Proposed vernacular names: the Malacca Strait bluespotted maskray (English); pari masker totol biru Selat Melaka (Indonesian); raie pastenague masquée à points bleus du détroit de Malacca (French). 


Neotrygon moluccensis sp. nov. 
Clade VII (Borsa et al., 2016b);
Neotrygon kuhlii Clade VII (Arlyza et al., 2013a; Borsa et al., 2016a);
Neotrygon kuhlii (Borsa et al., 2013a).

Distribution: the type locality of N. moluccensis sp. nov. is Tual, Kei Islands, Moluccas, Indonesia. Specimens of the same species were sampled from Ambon, Moluccas. Known distribution, based on present study: eastern half of Banda Sea. 

Etymology: epithet moluccensis refers to the geographic origin of the type material, the Molucca islands. It is the latinized geographical adjectival form of noun “Molucca”. 

Proposed vernacular names: Moluccan bluespotted maskray (English); pari masker totol biru Maluku (Indonesian); raie pastenague masquée à points bleus des Moluques (French). 


Neotrygon westpapuensis sp. nov. 
 Clade VIII (Borsa et al., 2016b);
Neotrygon kuhlii clade VIII (Arlyza et al., 2013a; Borsa et al., 2016a);
Neotrygon kuhlii (Borsa et al., 2013a).

 Distribution: the type locality of N. westpapuensis sp. nov. is Biak Island north of Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua. As all samples we have of this species originate from Biak and from nearby Numfor Island only, amid a wide unsampled region (Fig.1a), no distribution map can be inferred at present. The geological features of the northern coastline of the Vogelkop peninsula, where the shallow-water habitat favourable to blue-spotted maskrays is absent, isolate the reef fauna of Cenderawasih Bay from that of western West Papua further west. Further research is needed to delineate the precise geographic distribution of N. westpapuensis sp. nov.

 Etymology: Named for the country of type locality, West Papua as it is spelled since 1961 (Saltford, 2003). Epithet westpapuensis is the latinized geographical adjectival form of noun “West Papua”, with no emendation. 

Proposed vernacular names: West Papuan bluespotted maskray (English); pari masker totol biru West Papua (Indonesian); raie pastenague masquée à points bleus de Papouasie Occidentale (French). 


Philippe Borsa, Irma S. Arlyza, Thierry B. Hoareau and Kang-Ning Shen. 2017. Diagnostic Description and Geographic Distribution of Four New Cryptic Species of the Blue-spotted Maskray Species Complex (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae; Neotrygon spp.) based on DNA Sequences. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. DOI:  10.1007/s00343-018-7056-2

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ملاحظة هامة: كل عمليات تنزيل، رفع، وتعديل المواضيع الجاهزة تتم بطريقة آلية، ونعتذر عن اي موضوع مخالف او مخل بالحياء مرفوع بالمدونات الجاهزة بآلاف المواضيع والمشاركات، ولكم ان تقوموا بحذف هذه المواضيع والمشاركات والطريقة بسيطة وسهلة. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــسلامـ.

[Ichthyology • 2017] Systematic Revision of the Potamotrygon scobina Garman, 1913 Species-complex (Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygonidae), with the Description of Three New Freshwater Stingray Species from Brazil and Comments on Their Distribution and Biogeography ---ScRaBBlE


Potamotrygon scobina Garman, 1913


Abstract

Potamotrygon scobina Garman, 1913, described from Cametá, rio Tocantins, lower Amazon basin, is taxonomically reviewed through an extensive morphological study of internal and external features. Specimens identified as P. scobina from different locations of the Amazon basin were also studied. The identity of P. scobina, its morphology, and distribution are redefined. In addition, three new species closely related to P. scobina are described from Brazil: Potamotrygon adamastor, sp. nov., from rio Uraricoera, rio Branco system, upper Amazon basin; Potamotrygon amazona, sp. nov., from rio Juruá, upper Amazon basin; and Potamotrygon garmani, sp. nov., from the mid to upper rio Tocantins. These three new species do not occur sympatrically with P. scobina, as far as known. Together with P. scobina and P. limai Fontenelle, Silva & Carvalho, 2014, the new species have three angular cartilages of different sizes, a condition not seen in any other potamotrygonin (which have either one or two angulars). Diagnostic characters in combination are primarily morphometric proportions, especially tail length and width, dermal denticles and tail thorns (their relative size, number, morphology, and distribution), tooth size and number of rows, and color pattern.

Keywords: Pisces, taxonomy, Neotropics, angular cartilages, Potamotrygon garmani sp. nov., Potamotrygon amazona sp. nov., Potamotrygon adamastor sp. nov.


FIGURE . The Potamotrygon scobina species complex (forms recognized herein as distinct species, shown here for comparion, following Fontenelle 2013).
 
A. Potamotrygon garmani sp. nov. B. Potamotrygon amazona sp. nov. C. Potamotrygon scobinaD. Potamotrygon adamastor sp. nov. EPotamotrygon limai.

Potamotrygon scobina Garman, 1913 


João Pedro Fontenelle and Marcelo R. de Carvalho. 2017.  Systematic Revision of the Potamotrygon scobina Garman, 1913 Species-complex (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygonidae), with the Description of Three New Freshwater Stingray Species from Brazil and Comments on Their Distribution and Biogeography. Zootaxa.  4310(1); 1–63. DOI:  10.11646/zootaxa.4310.1.1
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ملاحظة هامة: كل عمليات تنزيل، رفع، وتعديل المواضيع الجاهزة تتم بطريقة آلية، ونعتذر عن اي موضوع مخالف او مخل بالحياء مرفوع بالمدونات الجاهزة بآلاف المواضيع والمشاركات، ولكم ان تقوموا بحذف هذه المواضيع والمشاركات والطريقة بسيطة وسهلة. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــسلامـ.

[Ichthyology • 2017] Neotrygon vali • A New Blue-spotted Maskray (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae) from the Solomon Archipelago Described from Its DNA Barcode ---ScRaBBlE


Neotrygon vali   Borsa, 2017

Abstract

The blue-spotted maskray from Guadalcanal Island (Solomon archipelago) is morphologically distinct from Neotrygon kuhlii with which it was previously confused and it is genetically distinct from all other species in the genus Neotrygon. It is here described as a new species, Neotrygon vali sp. nov., on the basis of its nucleotide sequence at the cytochrome oxidase 1 (CO1) gene locus. It is unique in the genus Neotrygon by the possession of nucleotide T at nucleotide site 420 and G at nucleotide site 522 of the CO1 gene.

Keywords: new species, CO1 gene, molecular diagnosis, taxonomy  

Figure 1. Guadalcanal maskray Neotrygon vali   sp. nov. 
showing the pigmentation patterns that differentiate it from N. kuhlii from Vanikoro.

 Photographed by M.A. Rosenstein near Mbike Wreck, November 2014. 

 Etymology:vali” is the word for stingray in Gela, one of the languages spoken in Guadalcanal. Epithet vali is intended to refer to the common name of the species among Guadalcanal fishers and it is a noun in apposition. Proposed vernacular names: Guadalcanal maskray (English); vali Guadalcanal (Gela); pastenague masquée à points bleus de Guadalcanal (French).


Philippe Borsa. 2017. Neotrygon vali (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae), A New Blue-spotted Maskray from the Solomon Archipelago Described from Its DNA Barcode.  bioRxiv preprint. DOI: 10.1101/106682


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ملاحظة هامة: كل عمليات تنزيل، رفع، وتعديل المواضيع الجاهزة تتم بطريقة آلية، ونعتذر عن اي موضوع مخالف او مخل بالحياء مرفوع بالمدونات الجاهزة بآلاف المواضيع والمشاركات، ولكم ان تقوموا بحذف هذه المواضيع والمشاركات والطريقة بسيطة وسهلة. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــسلامـ.

[Ichthyology • 2017] Neotrygon indica • A New Blue-spotted Maskray (Myliobatoidei, Dasyatidae) from Indian-Ocean ---ScRaBBlE


Neotrygon indica Pavan-Kumar, Kumar & Borsa, 2017


Abstract 
The blue-spotted maskray, previously N. kuhlii, consists of up to eleven lineages representing separate species. Nine of these species (N. australiae, N. bobwardi, N. caeruleopunctata, N. malaccensis, N. moluccensis, N. orientale, N. vali, N. varidens, N. westpapuensis) have already been formally described. Here the Indian-Ocean maskray is described as a new speciesNeotrygon indica sp. nov. A diagnosis based on its distinct colour patterns and nucleotide sequence at the CO1 locus is proposed.

 Keywords: Taxonomy; Diagnosis; Distribution


Fig. 1. Female blue-spotted maskray specimen, 174 mm disk length, from the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India (9.12°N 79.46°E) registered under no. ZSI/MBRC/F.1495 at the Marine Biology Regional Centre in Chennai, India and designated as holotype of Neotrygon indica sp. nov. (photograph by Rajan Kumar).

Etymology. Named for the country of type locality, India. Epithet indica is the latin feminine adjectival form of the name of the country.

 Proposed vernacular names. Indian-Ocean Blue-spotted Maskray (English); Neeli Nishan Pakat (Hindi); Pulli Thirukhai (Tamil); Raie pastenague masquée à points bleus de l’océan Indien (French)


Annam Pavan-Kumar, Rajan Kumar and Philippe Borsa. 2017. Neotrygon indica sp. nov., the Indian-Ocean Blue-spotted Maskray (Myliobatoidei, Dasyatidae). bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/179911


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تعرف على ترتيب مواضيع منتدى مدونات بلوجر جاهزة بآلاف المواضيع والمشاركات (حتى لا تختلط عليك الامور) من هنا

ملاحظة هامة: كل عمليات تنزيل، رفع، وتعديل المواضيع الجاهزة تتم بطريقة آلية، ونعتذر عن اي موضوع مخالف او مخل بالحياء مرفوع بالمدونات الجاهزة بآلاف المواضيع والمشاركات، ولكم ان تقوموا بحذف هذه المواضيع والمشاركات والطريقة بسيطة وسهلة. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــسلامـ.

[Ichthyology • 2017] Sympathy for the Devil: A Conservation Strategy for Devil and Manta Rays ---ScRaBBlE


Figure 1: Images of devil and manta rays. (A) Reef Manta Ray (Manta alfredi); (B) Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris); (C) Shortfin Devil Ray (Mobula kuhlii); (D) Smoothtail Devil Ray (Mobula munkiana).

Abstract
Background
International trade for luxury products, medicines, and tonics poses a threat to both terrestrial and marine wildlife. The demand for and consumption of gill plates (known as Peng Yu Sai, “Fish Gill of Mobulid Ray”) from devil and manta rays (subfamily Mobulinae, collectively referred to as mobulids) poses a significant threat to these marine fishes because of their extremely low productivity. The demand for these gill plates has driven an international trade supplied by largely unmonitored and unregulated catches from target and incidental fisheries around the world. Scientific research, conservation campaigns, and legal protections for devil rays have lagged behind those for manta rays despite similar threats across all mobulids.

Methods
To investigate the difference in attention given to devil rays and manta rays, we examined trends in the scientific literature and updated species distribution maps for all mobulids. Using available information on target and incidental fisheries, and gathering information on fishing and trade regulations (at international, national, and territorial levels), we examined how threats and protective measures overlap with species distribution. We then used a species conservation planning approach to develop the Global Devil and Manta Ray Conservation Strategy, specifying a vision, goals, objectives, and actions to advance the knowledge and protection of both devil and manta rays.

Results and Discussion
Our literature review revealed that there had been nearly 2.5-times more “manta”-titled publications, than “mobula” or “devil ray”-titled publications over the past 4.5 years (January 2012–June 2016). The majority of these recent publications were reports on occurrence of mobulid species. These publications contributed to updated Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence maps which showed expanded distributions for most mobulid species and overlap between the two genera. While several international protections have recently expanded to include all mobulids, there remains a greater number of national, state, and territory-level protections for manta rays compared to devil rays. We hypothesize that there are fewer scientific publications and regulatory protections for devil rays due primarily to perceptions of charisma that favour manta rays. We suggest that the well-established species conservation framework used here offers an objective solution to close this gap. To advance the goals of the conservation strategy we highlight opportunities for parity in protection and suggest solutions to help reduce target and bycatch fisheries.




Julia M. Lawson, Sonja V. Fordham, Mary P. O’Malley, Lindsay N.K. Davidson, Rachel H.L. Walls, Michelle R. Heupel, Guy Stevens, Daniel Fernando, Ania Budziak, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Isabel Ender, Malcolm P. Francis, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and Nicholas K. Dulvy​. 2017. Sympathy for the Devil: A Conservation Strategy for Devil and Manta Rays.
 PeerJ. 5:e3027.  DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3027

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رابط مدونة منتدى مدونات بلوجر جاهزة بآلاف المواضيع والمشاركات في أي وقت حــــتى لو تم حذفها من هنا
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[PaleoIchthyology • 2018] Protohimantura vorstmani • Anatomy, Relationships and Palaeobiogeographic Implications of the First Neogene Holomorphic Stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the early Miocene of Sulawesi, Indonesia, SE Asia ---ScRaBBlE


Protohimantura vorstmani  (De Beaufort, 1926)

Protohimantura
Marramà, Klug, de Vos & Kriwet, 2018

Abstract
The early Miocene stingray †Trygon vorstmani represented by a single specimen collected from the fish-bearing limestones of the Tonasa Formation of SW Sulawesi, Indonesia, is redescribed here in detail. This taxon exhibits a unique combination of features that clearly support the presence of a new genus, †Protohimantura gen. nov. and its assignment to the whiptail stingrays (Dasyatidae) of the subfamily Urogymninae. The morphological and phylogenetic affinities of †Protohimantura gen. nov. with the living whiprays suggest a close association of this taxon with tropical shallow-water habitats hypothesized for the SW Sulawesi palaeoenvironment during early Miocene. Moreover, this occurrence, which also represents the first holomorphic stingray specimen from the Neogene, provides new insights into the role of the Indo-Australian Archipelago for the evolutionary history of fishes associated with reefs in the context of the shift of the marine biodiversity hotspot across the globe during the last 50 million years.

    

Figure 2. †Protohimantura vorstmani (de Beaufort, 1926) from early Miocene of Sulawesi, Indonesia. A, RGM 624420, holotype; B, reconstruction, dermal denticles omitted. Scale bars 20 mm.

Abbreviations: ao, antorbital cartilage; e, eye; fpf, frontoparietal fontanelle; hyo, hyomandibula; mc, Meckel’s cartilage; mes, mesopterygium; met, metapterygium; nc, nasal capsules; oc, optic capsule; pq, palatoquadrate; pro, propterygium; rad, radials; sca, scapulocoracoid; ss, suprascapulae; syn1, cervicothoracic synarcual; syn2, thoracolumbar synarcual.

SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY



Class Chondrichthyes Huxley, 1880 
Superorder Batomorphii Cappetta, 1980 

Order Myliobatiformes Compagno, 1973 

Family Dasyatidae Jordan, 1888 
Subfamily Urogymninae Gray, 1851 (Sensu; Last Et Al., 2016B) 

Genus †Protohimantura Gen. Nov. 

Type species: Trygon vorstmani de Beaufort, 1926.

Etymology: From the Ancient Greek word prōto, meaning ‘first’, ‘foremost’, ‘earliest form of’, and Himantura, one of the living whipray genera, thus indicating a possible close relationship between both taxa.

Diagnosis: A whipray characterized by the following combination of characters and body proportions: eye small; interorbital width/eye diameter ratio of 3.5; nasal capsule width/neurocranial length ratio of 0.7; nasal capsule length/neurocranial length ratio of 0.2; anteroposterior fontanelle/neurocranial length ratio of 0.8; scapulocoracoid width/lateral face length ratio of 2.2; 55 propterygial radials; 17 mesopterygial radials; mid-dorsal surface of disc covered by heart-shaped denticles arranged in an antero-posteriorly directed patch having sharply defined outlines; teeth with semi-ovoid or subhexagonal crown with a second transverse keel; lingual and labial crown ornamentation absent.

Remarks: The species †Trygon vorstmani was created by de Beaufort (1926) who presented a short description (one page long) and figured this single specimen in part and counterpart, which was previously collected by Professor Brouwer at the beginning of the 20th century near Patoenoeang Asoe E in the Maros district of SW Sulawesi, Indonesia. The placement of this taxon in the family Dasyatidae [= Trygonidae of de Beaufort (1926)] was based on the presence of a propterygium that is bent inwards in front to the median line and pectorals of both sides meeting at the snout (de Beaufort, 1926). However, after this first brief report, no in-depth morphological analysis or identification of characters was provided to distinguish the specimen from other extant or extinct rays, with the exception of a preliminary study by Klug & Kriwet (2012) who recognized its close relationship with the genus Himantura. However, at present, Trygon is regarded as a junior synonym of Dasyatis Rafinesque, 1810, and the Sulawesi species shows several morphological features that distinguish it from DasyatisHimantura and all representatives of the family Dasyatidae (see Description and Discussion). On the contrary, the morphological characters observed in the examined specimen and discussed below corroborate the erection of a new genus to contain †Trygon vorstmani and its inclusion in the subfamily Urogymninae.

Protohimantura vorstmani (De Beaufort, 1926)

Trygon vorstmani de Beaufort, 1926: p. 119, pl. 1 (original occurrence of name, photograph and outline reconstruction); de Beaufort, 1931: p. 462.
Himantura vorstmani (de Beaufort, 1926); Klug & Kriwet, 2012: p. 93.

Holotype: RGM 624420, single specimen in part and counterpart, lacking the posterior region of body.

Type locality and horizon: Patoenoeang Asoe E, Maros District, SW Sulawesi, Indonesia; Tonasa Formation, ?Burdigalian, early Miocene (see: Wilson, 2000; Wilson et al., 2000).

Figure 1. Location and simplified geological map of the SW Sulawesi, Indonesia. The map, showing the early Miocene outcrops of the Tonasa Formation in which †Protohimantura vorstmani (de Beaufort, 1926) has been collected, is adopted and modified from Wilson (2000) and Wilson et al. (2000).

Figure 9. Palaeobiogeographical distribution of whiptail stingrays of the subfamily Urogymninae during middle Eocene to early Oligocene (A), Miocene (B), and Pliocene to present day (C).
1, Morocco; 2, Egypt; 3, Pakistan; 4, Oman; 5, India; 6, Madagascar; 7, Indonesia (this paper); 8, Italy.

The blue colour marks the main areal of the modern representatives of the Urogymninae. Data on fossil occurrences taken from Sahni & Mehrotra (1980), Case & Wiest (1991), Cappetta & Cavallo (2006), Adnet et al. (2007, 2010), Underwood et al. (2011) and Andrianavalona et al. (2015). The enclosed solid red lines delimit the West Tethys, Arabian, and IAA biodiversity hotspots according to Renema et al. (2008).


CONCLUSIONS: 
Although the early Miocene stingray from Sulawesi lacks portions of the posterior body, including the tail and the characteristic spines, several features are preserved and allow identification as a new representative of the family Dasyatidae, subfamily Urogymninae, and the creation of a new genus, †Protohimantura. A monophyletic family Dasyatidae is recovered based on the parsimony analyses. The phylogenetic analysis recovered a dichotomous nature of the relationships of the Myliobatiformes, which might reflect a phylogenetic signal in the nature of calcification of their pectoral radials, in their body shape and, consequently, in their swimming style. The analysis of the fossil record of the Urogymninae seems to suggest that the modern distribution of whiprays is the final result of their spatial dynamics across the Palaeogene and consistent, at least in part, with the eastward shift of the marine centre of palaeobiodiversity across the globe during the last 50 million years.


Giuseppe Marramà, Stefanie Klug, John de Vos and Jürgen Kriwet. 2018. Anatomy, Relationships and Palaeobiogeographic Implications of the First Neogene Holomorphic Stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the early Miocene of Sulawesi, Indonesia, SE Asia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. zly020. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly020 

       

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