MOBULIDAE, Gill, 1893

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MOBULIDAE

Mobula alfredi (Krefft 1868)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Kessel et al. 2017, as Manta alfredi ), Saudi Arabia ( Braun et al. 2015, as Manta alfredi ).

General distribution: Eastern Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago .

Mobula birostris (Walbaum 1792)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Manta ehrenbergi ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Bayoumi 1959, as Manta ehrenbergi ), Sudan ( Tortonese 1956, as Manta birostris ehrenbergi ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Manta birostris ehrenbergi ), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Manta birostris ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

Mobula kuhlii (Müller & Henle 1841)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Mobula diabolus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Bayoumi 1959), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Mobula diabolus ; Randall 1994c, as Mobula thurstoni ; Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.

Remark: Red Sea records of Mobula eregoodootenkee are based on this species (see White & Last 2016c).

Mobula tarapacana (Philippi 1892)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia ( Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

References

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1968) Report on the fisheries investigations of the Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Haifa, 52, 21 - 55.

Braun, C. D., Skomal, G. B., Thorrold, S. R. & Berumen, M. L. (2015) Movements of the reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) in the Red Sea using satellite and acoustic telemetry. Marine Biology, 163 (1 - 12), 2351 - 2362. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00227 - 015 - 2760 - 3

Gohar, H. A. F. & Bayoumi, A. R. (1959) On the anatomy of Manta ehrenbergi with notes on Mobula kuhlii. Publications of the Marine Biological Station Al-Ghardaqa, 10, 191 - 238, pls. 1 - 3.

Kessel, S. T., Elamin, N. A., Yurkowski, D. J., Chekchak, T., Walter, R. P., Klaus, R., Hill, G. & Hussey, N. E. (2017) Conservation of reef manta rays (Manta alfredi) in a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Large-scale island development or sustainable tourism? PLOS One, 12 (10), e 0185419, 1 - 16.

Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.

Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, G., Fernando, D., Adnet, S., Cappetta, H. & Jabado, R. W. (2016) Devil rays (Chondrichthys: Mobula) of the Arabian seas, with a redescription of Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes in Muller and Henle, 1841). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 2016, 1 - 22.

Randall, J. E. (1994 c) Twenty-two new records of fishes from the Red Sea. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 14, 259 - 275.

Spaet, J. L. Y. & Berumen, M. L. (2015) Fish market surveys indicate unsustainable elasmobranch fisheries in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Fisheries Research, 161, 356 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. fishres. 2014.08.022

Tortonese, E. (1956) Spedizione subacquea italiana nel Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche. IV. Plagiostomi. VI. Plettognati. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, 14, 5 - 21 + 73 - 86.

White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2016 c) 33. Devilrays. Family Mobulidae. In: Last, P. R., White, W. T., de Carvalho, M. R., Seret, B., Stehmann, M. F. W. & Naylor, G. J. P. (Eds.), Rays of the World. Cornell University Press, Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, pp. 741 - 749.