Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 30

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.