Biology:Mobulidae
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Short description: Family of cartilaginous fishes
| Mobulidae | |
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| Mobula birostris at Hin Daeng, Thailand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Batoidea |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Suborder: | Myliobatoidei |
| Superfamily: | Dasyatoidea |
| Family: | Mobulidae Gill, 1893[1] |
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The Mobulidae (manta rays and devilfishes) are a family of rays consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
Taxonomy
The Mobulidae have been variously considered a subfamily of the Myliobatidae by some authors,[2][3] and a distinct family by others, but recent work favors the latter.[4] Two genera have been traditionally recognized, Manta and Mobula, but recent DNA analysis shows that Mobula as traditionally recognized is paraphyletic to manta rays, making Manta a junior synonym of Mobula and Mobula the only extant genus of the family.[5]
Fossil record
Several genera of fossil mobulids are known, including Archaeomanta, Burnhamia, Eomobula, and Paramobula.[6][page needed][7][8]
References
- ↑ Theodore Gill (1893). "Families and Subfamilies of Fishes". Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 6 (6): 130. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6945192.
- ↑ Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). "Subfamily Mobulinae (devil rays)". Fishes of the World (4th ed.). Hoboken: Wiley. p. 82. ISBN 9780471756446. https://books.google.com/books?id=exTV-GLnCB4C&pg=PA82.
- ↑ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). "Subfamily Mobulinae (devil rays)". Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: Wiley. pp. 94–95. doi:10.1002/9781119174844.ch2.
- ↑ Last, Peter R.; White, William T.; de Carvalho, Marceo R. et al., eds (2016). "Devilrays: Family Mobulidae". Rays of the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 741–749. ISBN 9781501705328. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ds6sDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA741.
- ↑ White, William T.; Corrigan, Shannon; Yang, Lei; Henderson, Aaron C.; Bazinet, Adam L.; Swofford, David L.; Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2017). "Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zlx018: 50–75. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx018.
- ↑ Cappetta, H. (1987). Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii. Handbook of Paleoichthyology. 3B. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
- ↑ Herman, J.; Hovestadt-Euller, M.; Hovestadt, D. C. (1989). "Additions to the Eocene fish fauna of Belgium. 9. Discovery of Eomobula gen. et. sp. nov. (Mobulidae, Chondrichthyes) from the Ypresian". Tertiary Research (Leiden) 10 (4): 175–178. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259979796.
- ↑ Cicimurri, David J.; Knight, James L. (2009). "Late Oligocene Sharks and Rays from the Chandler Bridge Formation, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (4): 627–647. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0077.
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