Giant Devil Ray - Mobula mobular
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
| Scientific Name |
Mobula mobular |
| Author |
(Bonnaterre, 1788) |
| Taxonomic Rank |
Species |
| Taxonomic # |
160999 |
| Common Names |
English: devil fish
English: devil ray
English: giant devil ray
Spanish: manta mobula
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| Current Standing |
valid |
| Taxonomic Parents |
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Euselachii
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Mobulidae
Genus: Mobula
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| Synonyms (since 1950) |
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Taxonomic data is courtesy of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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| ITIS TSN | 160999 |
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Status - ESA, U.S. FWS
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Status - Red List, IUCN
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| EN (Global) |
| #records (spatial) | 702 |
| #records (non-spatial) | 0 |
| #datasets | 14 |
| Year | 1968 - 2023 |
| Latitude | -10.22 - 47.54 |
| Longitude | -109.90 - 139.50 |
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