Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)

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 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818793

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF8D-FFA9-98EA-F919FE0837DB

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Plazi

scientific name

Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
status

 

Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) View in CoL .

Giant Manta or Manta. To at least 7 m (23 ft) DW (Weigman 2016), and unconfirmed to 9.1 m (29.8 ft) DW ( Last and Stevens 2009). Circumglobal in warm waters mainly between 40°N and 40°S ( Last et al. 2016); western Pacific Ocean north to Okinawa (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); Santa Barbara, southern California ( Ebert 2003) to Peru (12°S) ( Moreno and Gonzalez-Pestana 2017), including Gulf of California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997); sighting (unverifiable) reported from Prince Willam Sound, Alaska ( Karinen et al. 1985). Pelagic; depth: surface to at least 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Weigman 2016).

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