WoRMS taxon details
Mobula yarae Bucair & Marshall, 2025
1830940 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1830940)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bucair, N.; Hinojosa-Alvarez, S.; Marshall, A. D.; Pate, J.; Francini, C. L. B.; Garrido, A. G.; Capel, K. C. C.; Loboda, T. S.; Monteiro, J. S.; Bruno, C. E. M.; Vaga, C. F.; Dove, A. D. M.; Hoopes, L. A.; Perry, C.; Kitahara, M. V. (2025). An integrative taxonomy investigation unravels a cryptic species of Mobula Rafinesque, 1810 (Mobulidae, Myliobatiformes), from the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Environmental Biology of Fishes.</em> 108(11): 1801-1835., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-025-01727-2 [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype USNM 443866, geounit Florida
, Note Pompano Beach (26°14′3″N,...
Holotype USNM 443866, geounit Florida [details]
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Type locality Pompano Beach (26°14′3″N, 80°07′19.20″W), Florida, USA. [details]
Etymology Named after a Brazilian legend in which Yara (Iara or Uiara), a beautiful Amazonian indigenous and excellent warrior, is...
Etymology Named after a Brazilian legend in which Yara (Iara or Uiara), a beautiful Amazonian indigenous and excellent warrior, is thrown into the water as a punishment. Yara, saved by the fishes, assumed a chimerical form (part fish and part woman), empowered with enchantment. Of dazzling beauty, the noun Yara, in the indigenous Tupi mythology, means “mother of water” or “mãe d’água” in Portuguese. The specific epithet, yarae, is in reverence to “Yara”, mother of the waters, from ancient Tupi and Guaraní mythology. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Mobula yarae Bucair & Marshall, 2025. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1830940 on 2026-04-19
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Nomenclature
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Bucair, N.; Hinojosa-Alvarez, S.; Marshall, A. D.; Pate, J.; Francini, C. L. B.; Garrido, A. G.; Capel, K. C. C.; Loboda, T. S.; Monteiro, J. S.; Bruno, C. E. M.; Vaga, C. F.; Dove, A. D. M.; Hoopes, L. A.; Perry, C.; Kitahara, M. V. (2025). An integrative taxonomy investigation unravels a cryptic species of Mobula Rafinesque, 1810 (Mobulidae, Myliobatiformes), from the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Environmental Biology of Fishes.</em> 108(11): 1801-1835., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-025-01727-2 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 443866, geounit Florida [details]
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Etymology Named after a Brazilian legend in which Yara (Iara or Uiara), a beautiful Amazonian indigenous and excellent warrior, is thrown into the water as a punishment. Yara, saved by the fishes, assumed a chimerical form (part fish and part woman), empowered with enchantment. Of dazzling beauty, the noun Yara, in the indigenous Tupi mythology, means “mother of water” or “mãe d’água” in Portuguese. The specific epithet, yarae, is in reverence to “Yara”, mother of the waters, from ancient Tupi and Guaraní mythology. [details]Holotype Female 248 cm DW found on July 19th, 2017, at Pompano Beach, Florida, USA (26°14′3″N, 80°07′19.20″W), is housed in the Vertebrate Zoology, Fishes Division of the Smithsonian Institution (USNM collection number: 443866), hereafter identified as manta M10. The specimen was preserved in its integrity, except for the caudal bulb and tooth band, which were photographed, but lost before storage. The complete mitogenome sequence and the partial nuclear genome of the holotype are deposited in GenBank (accession numbers PV339738 and PRJNA1147742 respectively). [details]
Type locality Pompano Beach (26°14′3″N, 80°07′19.20″W), Florida, USA. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Atlantic manta ray | [details] |
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