Mobula birostris

Familia: Mobulidae
Genus: Mobula
Species:

Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)

• No types known.
• No locality stated.

Etymology: bi- (= two) and rostrum (= snout), referring to two hornlike flaps (cephalic fins). (From The ETYFish Project)

• Raja birostris Walbaum, 1792
• Raja manatia Bloch & Schneider, 1801
• Raja diabolus marinus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
• Raja fimbriata Lacepède, 1802
• Cephalopterus giorna Lesueur, 1824
• Manta americana Bancroft, 1829
• Cephalopterus vampyrus Mitchill, 1824
• Cephalopterus manta Bancroft, 1829
• Ceratoptera ehrenbergii Müller & Henle, 1841
• Ceratoptera johnii Müller & Henle, 1841
• Brachioptilon hamiltoni Hamilton & Newman in Newman, 1849
• Diabolicthys elliotti Holmes, 1856
• Manta raya Baer, 1899
• Ceratoptera orissa Lloyd, 1908
• Manta pinchoti Whitley, 1936

• Kashiwagi, T., Marshall, A. D., Bennett, M. B. & Ovenden, J. R., 2012: The genetic signature of recent speciation in manta rays (Manta alfredi and M. birostris). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 212–218. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.020

• Marshall, A.D.; Compagno, L.J.V.; Bennett, M.B. 2009: Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae). Zootaxa, 2301: 1–28. Abstract & excerpt
• Walbaum, J.J. 1792. Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i–viii] + 1–723, Pls. 1–3. BHL Reference page. 
• White, W.T., Corrigan, S., Yang, L., Henderson, A.C., Bazinet, A.L., Swofford, D.L. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2018. Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: Mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(1): 50–75. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx018 . Reference page. 

• Mobula birostris in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Mobula birostris in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• IUCN: Manta birostris  (Vulnerable)

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