WoRMS name details
Mobula rochebrunei (Vaillant, 1879)
271483 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271483)
unaccepted
Species
Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879) Vaillant, L. L. (1879). Note sur une nouvelle espèce d'elasmobranche hypotrème, le Cephaloptera rochebrunei. <em>Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série).</em> v. 3: 187-188. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Mobula rochebrunei (Vaillant, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271483 on 2026-04-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879) Vaillant, L. L. (1879). Note sur une nouvelle espèce d'elasmobranche hypotrème, le Cephaloptera rochebrunei. <em>Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série).</em> v. 3: 187-188. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
William T White, Shannon Corrigan, Lei Yang, Aaron C Henderson, Adam L Bazinet . (2018). Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 182(1): 50-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx018 [details] Available for editors 
[request]
[request]Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mobula rochebrunei)
To FishBase (from synonym Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879)
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mobula rochebrunei)
To FishBase (from synonym Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879)
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Cephaloptera rochebrunei Vaillant, 1879)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
