Pastinachus solocirostris sp. nov., a new species of Stingray (Elasmobranchii: Myliobatiformes) from the Indo-Malay Archipelago

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1040, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Last, Peter R ^a   Manjaji, B Mabel ^b   Yearsley, Gordon K ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Dasyatidae; Indo Malay Archipelago; Indonesia; Malaysia; Pastinachus; Stingray

Indexed keywords

ELASMOBRANCHII; INSECTA; MYLIOBATIFORMES; PASTINACHUS; PASTINACHUS SEPHEN;

EID: 33745227265     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1040.1.1     Document Type: Article

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