PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Philippe Borsa
TI  - <em>Neotrygon vali</em> (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae), a new blue-spotted maskray from the Solomon archipelago described from its DNA barcode
AID  - 10.1101/106682
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 106682
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/07/106682.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/07/106682.full
AB  - 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.