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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Myliobatiformes (order)  »  Mobulidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 041002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Mobula mobular   (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Family: 37 41 Mobulidae (Devilrays) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Japanese Devilray Common Names List: Japanese devilray Organism Type: a devilray Synonyms: Mobula japanica (Müller & Henle,1841) [in most references prior to 2017] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m) Parent Codes: 37 041902     Mobula spp. Previous Codes (if any): 041002

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 50 m.

Taxon Notes:	Based on phylogenetic and morphological data, White et al 2017 placed Mobula japanica in the synonomy of Mobula mobular, so the latter is now the accepted name.
Identifiers:	FoA 1835 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217432 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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