Mobula mobular
Description
Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788).
Giant Devilray or Spinetail Devil Ray. Notarbartolo di Sciara et al. (2020) note that recent taxonomic changes among the Mobulidae have made the name Giant Devilray obsolete and suggest that Spinetail Devil Ray is more accurate. To at least 5.2 m (17.1 ft) DW (Last et al. 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Korea and northern Japan (as Mobula japonica, Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); central California to Peru (Ebert 2003), including Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996). Depth: surface to at 700 m (2,296 ft) (min.: Ebert 2003; max.: Weigmann 2016). The Mobula thurstoni reported by MacGinitie (1947) from Laguna Beach, southern California is likely M. mobular (Notarbartolo di Sciara 1987). We follow Poortvliet et al. (2015) and Last et al. (2016) in synonymizing Mobula japanica (Müller & Henle, 1841) with this species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myliobatidae
- Genus
- Mobula
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myliobatiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonnaterre
- Species
- mobular
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Stevens, G. & Fernando, D. (2020) The giant devil ray Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) is not giant, but it is the only spinetail devil ray. Marine Biodiversity Records, 13, 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 41200 - 020 - 00187 - 0
- 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.
- Galvan-Magana, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A., Rodriguez-Romero, J., Perez-Espana, H. & Chavez-Ramos, H. (1996) Systematic list of the fishes from Cerralvo Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 22, 295 - 311.
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- MacGinitie, G. E. (1947) Notes on the devilfish, Mobula lucasana, and its parasites. Copeia, 1947, 276 - 278.
- Poortvliet, M., Olsen, J. L., Croll, D. A., Bernardi, G., Newton, K., Kollias, S., O'Sullivan, J., Fernando, D., Stevens, G., Galvan Magana, F., Seret, B., Wintner, S. & Hoarau, G. (2015) A dated molecular phylogeny of manta and devil rays (Mobulidae) based on mitogenome and nuclear sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 83, 72 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2014.10.012