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Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908)

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 : 110

publication ID

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

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12710669

persistent identifier

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scientific name

 Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908)
status

 

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Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 220 cm WD

Water type: marine

Environment: pelagic-oceanic

Depth range: 0-100 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: EN – Endangered (A2bd+3d / 2019)

Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: probably circumtropical but in scattered localities. Eastern Atlantic: known from off Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. Observed caught by artisanal fishery of Mayumba and tuna seiner (Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.). CITES Appendix II.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Myliobatiformes

Family

Myliobatidae

Genus

Mobula

Specimens