Figure 2 in Notes on the origin of Müller and Henle's illustration and type material of the blue-spotted maskray Neotrygon kuhlii (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae)

Figure 2. – Vanikoro maskray (raie bleue; foro; Raia coerula), dorsal side. Original watercolour by J.R.C. Quoy executed at Vanikoro in 1828, during the Astrolabe expedition (Dumont d'Urville, 1833); p. 89 of Quoy and Gaimard field notes assembled as MS 840 at Bibliothèque centrale du MNHN, Paris (Bauchot, 1994). Quoy represented ocellated blue spots (N = 14), dark-brown spots (N = 13), dark speckles (N = 3), and lighter-brown scapular blotches (N = 2, one on each shoulder). Edited from a photograph by Bibliothèque centrale du MNHN. Copyright: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris) – Direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation, 2016.