PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Annam Pavan-Kumar
AU  - Rajan Kumar
AU  - Pranali Pitale
AU  - Kang-Ning Shen
AU  - Philippe Borsa
TI  - <em>Neotrygon indica</em> sp. nov., the Indian-Ocean blue spotted maskray (Myliobatoidei, Dasyatidae)
AID  - 10.1101/179911
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 179911
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/04/179911.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/04/179911.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 and two (Indian-Ocean maskray and Ryukyu maskray) remain undescribed. Here the Indian-Ocean maskray is described as a new species, Neotrygon indica sp. nov.