Mobulidae

Mobulidae
Temporal range: 100.5–0 Ma

Late Cretaceous to Recent

Manta birostris at Hin Daeng, Thailand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Mobulidae
Gill, 1893

Mobulidae (manta rays and devilfishes) is a family of rays consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.

Taxonomy

Mobulidae has been variously considered a subfamily of Myliobatidae by some authors[1] and a distinct family by others, but recent work favors the latter.[2] Two genera have been traditionally recognized, Manta and Mobula, but recent DNA analysis shows that Mobula as traditionally recognized is paraphyletic with respect to manta rays, making Manta a junior synonym of Mobula.[3]

Fossil record

Several genera of fossil mobulids are known, including Archaeomanta, Burnhamia, Eomobula, and Paramobula.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Nelson, J.S., 2006. Fishes of the World. 4th ed. Hoboken (New Jersey, USA): John Wiley & Sons. xix+601 pp.
  2. ↑ White, W.T.; Last, P.R. (2016). Devilrays: family Mobulidae , in: Last, P.R. et al. (Ed.) Rays of the World. pp. 741-749.
  3. ↑ William T. White, Shannon Corrigan, Lei Yang, Aaron C. Henderson, Adam L. Bazinet, David L. Swofford, Gavin J. P. Naylor, 2017. Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society zlx018. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx018
  4. ↑ H. Cappetta. 1987. Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii 1-193 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]
  5. ↑ J. Herman, M. Hovestadt-Euller, and D. C. Hovestadt. 1988. Additions to the Eocene fish fauna of Belgium; 9, Discovery of Eomobula gen. et. sp. nov. Tertiary Research 10(4):75-78
  6. ↑ D. J. Cicimurri and J. L. Knight. 2009. Late Oligocene sharks and rays from the Chandler Bridge Formation, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(4):627-647


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