WoRMS taxon details

Mobulidae Gill, 1893

196070  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196070)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Chondrichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Elasmobranchii (Class)
  8. Neoselachii (Subclass)
  9. Batoidea (Infraclass)
  10. Myliobatiformes (Order)
  11. Mobulidae (Family)
accepted
Family
marine, terrestrial
Not documented
Distribution Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Head differentiated from disc. Eyes and spiracles on sides of head....  
Distribution Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Head differentiated from disc. Eyes and spiracles on sides of head. Mouth ventral in Mobula and terminal in Manta. Size of gill openings almost the length of eye. Length of tail much greater than disc. Some with spines. Dorsal fin small. Caudal fin lacking. Three functional paired limbs. The cephalic pair of fins aid in feeding and are said to be essentially the anterior subdivision of the pectorals. Some reach about 6.1 m and weigh over 1360 kg.  [details]
WoRMS (2023). Mobulidae Gill, 1893. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196070 on 2023-10-01
Date
action
by
2005-12-27 19:49:34Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2013-06-24 13:05:17Z
changed
Decock, Wim
2015-04-17 09:08:32Z
checked
Bailly, Nicolas
2021-06-30 07:11:15Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]   

source of synonymy Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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Distribution Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Head differentiated from disc. Eyes and spiracles on sides of head. Mouth ventral in Mobula and terminal in Manta. Size of gill openings almost the length of eye. Length of tail much greater than disc. Some with spines. Dorsal fin small. Caudal fin lacking. Three functional paired limbs. The cephalic pair of fins aid in feeding and are said to be essentially the anterior subdivision of the pectorals. Some reach about 6.1 m and weigh over 1360 kg.  [details]
LanguageName 
English manta rays and devil raysmanta rays  [details]
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