MOBULIDAE (DEVIL RAYS)
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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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