PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Annam Pavan-Kumar
AU  - Rajan Kumar
AU  - Philippe Borsa
TI  - <em>Neotrygon indica</em> sp. nov., the Indian-Ocean blue spotted maskray (Myliobatoidei, Dasyatidae)
AID  - 10.1101/179911
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 179911
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/23/179911.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/23/179911.full
AB  - 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 species, Neotrygon indica sp. nov. A diagnosis based on its distinct colour patterns and nucleotide sequence at the CO1 locus is proposed.