Mobula tarapacana ( Philippi, 1892 )

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 101

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4697794

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1-950D-FFEA-CFF7-5FE3FDEB27FB

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scientific name

Mobula tarapacana ( Philippi, 1892 )
status

 

Mobula tarapacana ( Philippi, 1892) View in CoL View at ENA

Sicklefin Devilray

Cephaloptera tarapacana Philippi, 1892: 8 View in CoL , pl. 3(fig.2). Holoype (unique): lost. Type locality: 12 miles west of Iquique , Tarapacà Province, Chile, southeastern Pacific.

Local synonymy: Mobula tarapacana View in CoL : Compagno et al., 1989: 118, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 118; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 105, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148; Weigmann, 2016: 982; White & Last, 2016c: 748, fig. 33.7; Stevens et al., 2018: 102, figs.

South Africa voucher material: None.

South African distribution: Jeffreys Bay (EC) to KZN border with Mozambique .

Remarks: The distribution of this species is patchy with only scattered records in the WIO, including South African waters.

Conservation status: EN (2019).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Myliobatidae

Genus

Mobula

Loc

Mobula tarapacana ( Philippi, 1892 )

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M. 2021
2021
Loc

Cephaloptera tarapacana

Philippi, R. A. 1892: 8
1892
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