Borsa Philippe, Arlyza I.S., Chen W.J., Durand Jean-Dominique, Meekan M.G., Shen K.N. (2013). Resurrection of New Caledonian maskray Neotrygon trigonoides (Myliobatoidei : Dasyatidae) from synonymy with N. kuhlii, based on cytochrome-oxidase I gene sequences and spotting patterns. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 336 (4), p. 221-232. ISSN 1631-0691.
Titre du document
Resurrection of New Caledonian maskray Neotrygon trigonoides (Myliobatoidei : Dasyatidae) from synonymy with N. kuhlii, based on cytochrome-oxidase I gene sequences and spotting patterns
Année de publication
2013
Auteurs
Borsa Philippe, Arlyza I.S., Chen W.J., Durand Jean-Dominique, Meekan M.G., Shen K.N.
Source
Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2013,
336 (4), p. 221-232 ISSN 1631-0691
The maskray from New Caledonia, Neotrygon trigonoides CasteInau, 1873, has been recently synonymized with the blue-spotted maskray, N. kuhlii (Muller and Henle, 1841), a species with wide Indo-West Pacific distribution, but the reasons for this are unclear. Blue-spotted maskray specimens were collected from the Indian Ocean (Tanzania, Sumatra) and the Coral Triangle (Indonesia, Taiwan, and West Papua), and N. trigonoides specimens were collected from New Caledonia (Coral-Sea). Their partial COI gene sequences were generated to expand the available DNA-barcode database on this species, which currently comprises homologous sequences from Ningaloo Reef, the Coral Triangle and the Great Barrier Reef (Coral-Sea). Spotting patterns were also compared across regions. Haplotypes from the Coral-Sea formed a haplogroup phylogenetically distinct from all other haplotypes sampled in the Indo-West Pacific. No clear-cut geographic composition relative to DNA-barcodes or spotting patterns was apparent in N. kuhlii samples across the Indian Ocean and the Coral Triangle. The New Caledonian maskray had spotting patterns markedly different from all the other samples. This, added to a substantial level of net nucleotide divergence (2.6%) with typical N. kuhlii justifies considering the New Caledonian maskray as a separate species, for which we propose to resurrect the name Neotrygon trigonoides.
Plan de classement
Limnologie biologique / Océanographie biologique [034]
Description Géographique
NOUVELLE CALEDONIE ; PACIFIQUE OUEST ; OCEAN INDIEN ; MER DE CORAIL
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010060552]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010060552
