Mobula birostris

Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792). 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Mobula
Mobula birostris
Yukon
Pacific
Moreno
Milton
Gonzalez
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5818793
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818793
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Summary:Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792). 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). 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 29, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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