Species Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes, 1841)

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• Cephaloptera kuhlii Valenciennes, A. 1841. Cephaloptera Kuhlii. Valenc. p. 185, pl. 59 in Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Berlin : Veit & Co. pp. 103-200 pls. [p. 185, pl. 59] [authorship sometimes attributed to Müller & Henle, but those authors attribute authorship to Valenciennes].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP 1596, India.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2008.12.1.1 skin.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Séret, B. & McEachran, J.D. 1987. Catalogue critique des types de poissons du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. (Suite) Poissons batoïdes (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii, Batoidea). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animale [Paris, published 1979-1996] 4 8(4 suppl.): 3-50 [26].

Generic Combinations

• Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes, 1841). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1936. The Australian devil ray, Daemomanta alfredi (Krefft), with remarks on the superfamily Mobuloidea (order Batoidei). The Australian Zoologist 8(3): 164-188 [186] (changed combination cited)

Introduction

The species was misidentified in early literature as Mobula diabolus or M diabola (a mispelling). That name is now regarded as a synonym of as M. mobular. Subsequently it was typically treated as Mobula eregoodootenkee, but now regarded as distinct or with that species a synonym of M. kuhlii. Early records are not completely reliable. The presence and distribution of the species in Australia needs clarification. Tentatively we treat it only as recorded from Australia.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Locations in Australia uncertain; tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, inshore, marine, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

To 50 m

General References

Compagno, L.J.V. & Last, P.R. 1999. Families Gymnuridae, Myliobatidae, Rhinopteridae, Mobulidae. pp. 1505-1529 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1528] (not recorded from Australia)

White, W.T., Baje, L., Sabub, B., Appleyard, S.A., Pogonoski, J.J. & Mana, R.R. 2017. Sharks and Rays of Papua New Guinea. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Monograph Series 189: 1-327 [288]

White, W.T. & Last, P.R. 2016. Families Myliobatidae, Aetobatidae. pp. 706-731 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R. de, Séret, B., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. Clayton South, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 790 pp. [745] (in part)

Common Name References

Compagno, L.J.V. & Last, P.R. 1999. Families Gymnuridae, Myliobatidae, Rhinopteridae, Mobulidae. pp. 1505-1529 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1528] (Lesser Devilray)

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