Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1892)

Chilean Devilray

Cephaloptera tarapacana Philippi, 1892: 8, Pl. 3 (fig. 2). Holotype: whereabouts unknown. Type locality: 12 miles west of Iquique, Tarapacà Province, Chile.

Local synonymy: White et al., 2018: 292, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: None.

Remarks: No confirmed PNG specimens recorded, but recorded in the bycatch of the purse seine fishery. It is a distinctive and regularly caught devilray in pelagic fisheries in tropical Western Central Pacific waters, thus its presence in PNG is very likely.