Mobula hypostoma (Bancroft, 1831)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 109

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2022-462-3-001

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C63F87BA-E328-3F74-762D-DF9AEB96FABB

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Mobula hypostoma (Bancroft, 1831)
status

 

Mobula hypostoma (Bancroft, 1831) View in CoL

Mobula rochebrunei (Vaillant, 1879) [Synonym: junior, original� Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 120 cm WD

Water type: marine

Environment: pelagic-neritic

Depth range: 0-100 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: EN – Endangered (A2cd+3d / 2019)

Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: endemic to the Atlantic Ocean where it is patchily distributed. Eastern Atlantic: known from Mauritania to Angola. Observed caught by artisanal fishery of Mayumba and by trawlers, recorded as M. rochebrunei (Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.). CITES Appendix II.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Myliobatidae

Genus

Mobula

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Myliobatidae

Genus

Mobula

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