Mobula birostris
creator: Bailly, Nicolas
date: 2026-08-02
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1026118 on 2026-08-02
created: 2017-08-04T21:37:55Z
modified: 2017-10-23T06:16:08Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
class: Elasmobranchii
family: Mobulidae
genus: Mobula
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Baer, G. A. (1899). [On the capture of a large Manta, 5.25 m., on the coast of Peru, with remarks on the occurrence of this ray in the gulf of Panama. Discussion by Prof. Vaillant.]. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 1). 5 (3): 111-113.
name published in: Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.
name published in: Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110.
name published in: Bancroft, E. N. (1829). On the fish known in Jamaica as the sea-devil. Zoological Journal, London. v. 4 (no. 16) (art. 55): 444-457.
name published in: Newman, E. (1849). Enormous undescribed fish, apparently allied to the Raiidae, killed off California. The Zoologist: a Popular Miscellany of Natural History. 7(1849): 2357-2358.
name published in: Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549.
name published in: Mitchill, S. L. (1824). Description of a new and gigantic species of the genus Cephalopterus of Duméril. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 1: 23-29, Pl. 2 (Fig.1).
name published in: Müller, J.; Henle, F. G. J. (1838-1841). Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Veit und Comp., Berlin. i-xxii + 1-200, 60 pls. [Pp. 1-28 published in 1838, reset pp. 27-28, 29-102 in 1839, i-xxii + 103-200 in 1841. Please note the different authors responsible for some species.].
name published in year: 1899
name published in year: 1792
name published in year: 1801
name published in year: 1829
name published in year: 1849
name published in year: 1870
name published in year: 1824
name published in year: 1838-1841
order: Myliobatiformes
parent name usage ID: 105756
phylum: Chordata
scientific name authorship: (Walbaum, 1792)
specific epithet: birostris
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted