Mobula thurstoni

• 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 thurstoni; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818801; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.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