Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Myliobatiformes > Myliobatidae > Mobula > Mobula thurstoni

Mobula thurstoni (smoothtail mobula; Smooth-tail mobula; Smooth tail devil ray; Manta; Lesser devil ray; Bentfin devilray; Bentfin devil ray)

Synonyms: Dicerobatis thurstoni; Mobula lucasana
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Wikipedia Abstract

The bentfin devil ray, lesser devil ray, smoothtail devil ray, smoothtail mobula, or Thurston's devil ray (Mobula thurstoni) is a species of fish in the family Myliobatidae. It has been recorded off the coasts of Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Oman, the Philippines, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, and possibly Madagascar. Its natural habitats are open seas, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, and coral reefs.
View Wikipedia Record: Mobula thurstoni

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Mobula thurstoni

Prey / Diet

Nyctiphanes simplex[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RAYS OF THE GENUS MOBULA IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA, GIUSEPPE NOTARBARTOLO-DI-SCIARA, FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 86, NO. 1, 1988 p. 45-66
♦ 2Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0