MOBULIDAE (DEVIL RAYS)

Henderson, Aaron C., Reeve, Alan J., Jabado, Rima W. & Naylor, Gavin J. P., 2016, Taxonomic assessment of sharks, rays and guitarfishes (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) from south-eastern Arabia, using the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (NADH 2) gene, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (2), pp. 399-442 : 430

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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12309

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MOBULIDAE (DEVIL RAYS)
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MOBULIDAE (DEVIL RAYS)

This family was represented by four species, which exhibited a between-group mean distance of 5.23 ± 0.43%. Mobula japanica and Mobula thurstoni formed distinct clusters, but M. kuhlii and M. eregoodootenke clustered together ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ). The latter two species are morphologically distinct ( Fig. 7 View Figure 7 ) but they exhibited a very low between-group mean distance ( Table 3). Naylor et al. (2012) did not include M. eregoodootenke in their study, but the M. kuhlii / M. eregoodootenke specimens from the present study clustered with their M. kuhlii specimens. The former two species clustered with the relevant taxa.

Naylor GJP, Caira JN, Jensen K, Rosana KAM, White WT, Last PR. 2012. A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 367: 1 - 262.

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Figure 2. Neighbour-joining tree for an 829-bp fragment of the NADH2 gene from 1487 elasmobranch specimens from south-eastern Arabia. Values in parentheses indicate sample size (n) and within-group mean genetic distance (D). Bootstrap values are based on 1000 replications and only values ≥ 95% are shown.

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Figure 7. Specimens of Mobula eregoodootenkee (top) and Mobula kuhlii (bottom) from Oman. Despite their genetic similarity, these species are morphologically distinguishable.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Mobulidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Myliobatidae

Genus

Mobula