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Mobula munkiana (Munk's devil ray; Pygmy devil ray; Smoothtail mobula)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Mobula munkiana, commonly known as the manta de monk, Munk's devil ray, pygmy devil ray, or smoothtail mobula, is a species of ray in the family Myliobatidae. Its natural habitats are shallow tropical seas, and it is found primarily in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of California, off the coast of Ecuador and Guatemala, and near the Galapagos Islands. Munk's devil ray was first described in 1987 by the Italian ecologist Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Mobula munkiana

Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

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External References

Citations

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♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Pollerspöck, 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;
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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