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Mobula thurstoni
Description
Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908).
Smoothtail Mobula or Bentfin Devilray. To 1.85 m (6.1 ft) DW (Weigman 2016); reported to 2.2 m (7.1 ft) DW (Bizzarro et al. 2007). Circumglobal; Isla Guadalupe (Miller and Lea 1972, as M. lucasana); patchily reported from southern Baja California through Gulf of California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995), Guatamala to Panama, and Ecuador (Marshall et al. 2019) Depth: surface to 100 m (328 ft) or more (Notarbartolo di Sciara 1988). Mobula lucasana Beebe & Tee-Van, 1938 is a synonym.
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
- Lloyd
- Species
- thurstoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Bizzarro, J. J., Smith, W. D., Hueter, R. E., Tyminski, J., Marquez-Farias, J. F., Castillo-Ganiz, J. L., Cailliet, G. M. & Villacencio- Garayzar, C. J. (2007) The status of shark and ray fishery resources in the Gulf of California: applied research to improve management and conservation. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Technical Publication, 2009 - 01.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- 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.
- Marshall, A., Barreto, R., Bigman, J. S., Carlson, J., Fernando, D., Fordham, S., Francis, M. P., Herman, K., Jabado, R. W., Liu, K. M., Pardo, S. A., Rigby, C. L., Romanov, E., Smith, W. D. & Walls, R. H. L. (2019) Mobula thurstoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019, e. T 60200 A 124451622. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / iucn. uk. 2019 - 3. rlts. t 60200 a 124451622. en
- Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. (1988) Natural history of the rays of the genus Mobula in the Gulf of California. Fishery Bulletin, 86, 45 - 66.