Biology:Mobulidae
The Mobulidae are a family of rays (manta rays and devilfishes) 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,[1][2] and a distinct family nby others, but recent work favors the latter.[3] 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.[4]
Fossil record
Several genera of fossil mobulids are known from teeth, including Archaeomanta, Burnhamia, Eomobula, and Paramobula.[5] [6][7] The earliest records of mobulids are of Archaeomanta from the Early Paleocene.[8] A potentially earlier record may be Cretomanta from the mid-Cretaceous, but this genus may represent a planktivorous shark potentially related to Aquilolamna.[9][10]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon" (in en). https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=83124.
- ↑ Nagrodski, Matthew; Shimada, Kenshu; Schumacher, Bruce A. (2012-10-01). "Marine vertebrates from the Hartland Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Upper Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado, USA". Cretaceous Research 37: 76–88. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.007. ISSN 0195-6671. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667112000468.
- ↑ Vullo, Romain; Frey, Eberhard; Ifrim, Christina; González González, Margarito A.; Stinnesbeck, Eva S.; Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang (2021-03-19). "Manta-like planktivorous sharks in Late Cretaceous oceans". Science 371 (6535): 1253–1256. doi:10.1126/science.abc1490. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abc1490.
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