Mobula thurstoni

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Myliobatiformes; Myliobatidae; Mobula; Mobula thurstoni; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Rigby; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818801; https://zenodo.org/record/5818801

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. : Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Bizzarro, J. J., Smith, W. D., Hueter, R. E., Tyminski, J., Marquez-Farias, J. F., Castillo-Ganiz, J. L., Cailliet, G. M. & Villacencio- Garayzar, C. J. (2007) The status of shark and ray fishery resources in the Gulf of California: applied research to improve management and conservation. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Technical Publication, 2009 - 01.", "Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.", "Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.", "Marshall, A., Barreto, R., Bigman, J. S., Carlson, J., Fernando, D., Fordham, S., Francis, M. P., Herman, K., Jabado, R. W., Liu, K. M., Pardo, S. A., Rigby, C. L., Romanov, E., Smith, W. D. & Walls, R. H. L. (2019) Mobula thurstoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019, e. T 60200 A 124451622. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / iucn. uk. 2019 - 3. rlts. t 60200 a 124451622. en", "Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. (1988) Natural history of the rays of the genus Mobula in the Gulf of California. Fishery Bulletin, 86, 45 - 66."]}