Mobula mobular ( Bonnaterre, 1788 )

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

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scientific name	Mobula mobular ( Bonnaterre, 1788 )
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Mobula mobular ( Bonnaterre, 1788) View in CoL View at ENA

Giant Devil Ray

Raia mobular Bonnaterre, 1788: 5 View in CoL . No types known. Type locality: Montredon , near Marseille, France, western Mediterranean Sea.

Local synonymy: Mobula japanica View in CoL : Compagno, 1999: 118; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 103, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148; Weigmann, 2016: 982.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB uncatalogued.

South African distribution: East of Port Alfred (EC) and the KZN coast.

Remarks: White et al. (2018) synonymized Mobula mobular (previously considered a Mediterranean Sea endemic) with M. japonica with precedence given to the name M. mobular . Records from off South Africa are not well documented.

Conservation status: EN (2020).