Canadian Register of Marine Species

WoRMS name details

Manta Bancroft, 1829

AphiaID

105755 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105755)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Mobula Rafinesque, 1810

Rank

Genus

Parent

Mobulidae Gill, 1893

Synonymised names

Brachioptilon Hamilton, 1849 · unaccepted

Ceratoptera Müller & Henle, 1837 · unaccepted

Direct children (11)

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Species Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) accepted as Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868)
Species Manta americana Bancroft, 1829 accepted as Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
Species Manta birostris (Walbaum, 1792) accepted as Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
Species Manta brevirostris (Walbaum, 1792) accepted as Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, lapsus calami)
Species Manta ehrenbergii (Müller & Henle, 1841) accepted as Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
Species Manta fowleri Whitley, 1936 accepted as Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868)
Species Manta hamiltoni (Hamilton & Newman, 1849) accepted as Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
Species Manta mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) accepted as Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Species Manta pakoka Whitley, 1936 accepted as Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (junior synonym)
Species Manta pakota Whitley, 1936 accepted as Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868)
Species Manta raya Baer, 1899 accepted as Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) (ambiguous synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

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. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Manta Bancroft, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105755 on 2025-06-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-01-04 15:09:25Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2021-09-22 05:19:47Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description 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. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Remark Placed in family Mobulidae in Fishbase 96 [details]

Language	Name
Japanese	オニイトマキエイ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Manta FIN030856 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Manta FIN030856 Slide 120 mm)

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