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Mobula tarapacana
Description
Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1893).
Chilean Devil Ray or Sicklefin Devil Ray. To 3.7 m (12.1 ft) DW (Compagno and Last in Carpenter and Niem 1999). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); southern Baja California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: surface to over 2,000 m (6,560 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max. Jones et al. 2020).
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 30, 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
- Philippi
- Species
- tarapacana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1893) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.). (1999) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 3. Batoid Fishes, Chimaeras and Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). Volume 4. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae). FAO, Rome.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Jones, C. M., Driggers II, W. B., Hannan, K. M., Hoffmayer, E. R., Jones, L. M. & Raredon, S. J. (2020) An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyan fishes in habiting the northern Gulf of Mexico Part 1: Batoidea. Zootaxa, 2803, 281 - 315. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4803.2.3