Mobula birostris (Walbaum 1792)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Myliobatidae
- genus
- Mobula
- species
- Mobula birostris
description
Giant Manta or Manta. To at least 7 m (23 ft) DW (Weigman 2016), and unconfirmed to 9.1 m (29.8 ft) DW (Last and Stevens 2009). Circumglobal in warm waters mainly between 40 ° N and 40 ° S (Last et al. 2016); western Pacific Ocean north to Okinawa (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); Santa Barbara, southern California (Ebert 2003) to Peru (12 ° S) (Moreno and Gonzalez-Pestana 2017), including Gulf of California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); sighting (unverifiable) reported from Prince Willam Sound, Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985). Pelagic; depth: surface to at least 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Weigman 2016).
Name
- Homonyms
- Mobula birostris (Walbaum 1792)