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Mobula birostris
Description
Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792).
Giant Manta or Manta. To at least 7 m (23 ft) DW (Weigman 2016), and unconfirmed to 9.1 m (29.8 ft) DW (Last and Stevens 2009). Circumglobal in warm waters mainly between 40°N and 40°S (Last et al. 2016); western Pacific Ocean north to Okinawa (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); Santa Barbara, southern California (Ebert 2003) to Peru (12°S) (Moreno and Gonzalez-Pestana 2017), including Gulf of California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); sighting (unverifiable) reported from Prince Willam Sound, Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985). Pelagic; depth: surface to at least 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Weigman 2016).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myliobatidae
- Genus
- Mobula
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Walbaum
- Species
- birostris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Last, P. R. & Stevens, J. D. (2009) Sharks and Rays of Australia. Second Edition. CSIRO, Melbourne.
- Last, P. R., Naylor, G. J. P. & Manjaji-Matsumoto, B. M. (2016 a) A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights. Zootaxa, 4139, 345 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4139.3.2
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Moreno, B. & Gonzalez-Pestana, A. (2017) Southernmost record of the giant manta ray Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) in the eastern Pacific. Marine Biodiversity Records, 10 (27). https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 41200 - 017 - 0130 - 1
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Karinen, J. F., Wing, B. L. & Straty, R. R. (1985) Records and sightings of fish and invertebrates in the eastern Gulf of Alaska and oceanic phenonmenon related to the 1983 El Nino event. In: Wooster, W. S. & Fluherty, D. L. (Eds.), El Nino North: Nino Effects in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Washington Sea Grant Program, University of Washington, Seattle.