MOBULIDAE

Mobula alfredi (Krefft 1868)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Kessel et al. 2017, as Manta alfredi), Saudi Arabia (Braun et al. 2015, as Manta alfredi).

General distribution: Eastern Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago .

Mobula birostris (Walbaum 1792)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Manta ehrenbergi).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Bayoumi 1959, as Manta ehrenbergi), Sudan (Tortonese 1956, as Manta birostris ehrenbergi), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Manta birostris ehrenbergi), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Manta birostris).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

Mobula kuhlii (Müller & Henle 1841)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Mobula diabolus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Bayoumi 1959), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Mobula diabolus; Randall 1994c, as Mobula thurstoni; Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.

Remark: Red Sea records of Mobula eregoodootenkee are based on this species (see White & Last 2016c).

Mobula tarapacana (Philippi 1892)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.