Bentfin Devilray, Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)
Other Names: Lesser Devil Ray, Smoothtail Devil Ray, Smoothtail Mobula, Thurston's Devil Ray
Bentfin Devilrays, Mobula thurstonion the outer Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, August 2017. Source: mattytestoni / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
, smoothtail devil ray, smoothtail mobula, or Thurston's devil ray
Cite this page as:
Dianne J. Bray, Mobula thurstoni in Fishes of Australia, accessed 31 Mar 2020, http://136.154.202.208/home/species/3499
Bentfin Devilray, Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)
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Distribution |
Off Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, and off Mackay and Port Douglas, Queensland, Elsewhere the species is known from scattered locations in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. |
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Feeding |
Feeds on pelagic crustaceans such as euphausid and mysid shrimps. |
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Biology |
An aplacental viviparous species - embryos initially obtain nutrients from the yolk, then absorb enriched uterine fluid provided by the mother. Females produce a single pup (length 65-85 cm DW) after a gestation period of about one year. |
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Fisheries |
Targeted or taken as bycatch in pelagic and demersal gillnets, and purse seines in parts of its range - particularly in South Asia. |
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Etymology |
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Species Citation |
Dicerobatis thurstoni Lloyd, 1908, Rec. Indian Mus. 2(2): 179, pl. 4(2). Type locality: India. |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
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Bentfin Devilray, Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)
References
Clark, T.B., Smith, W.D. & Bizzarro, J.J. 2006. Mobula thurstoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2.
Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp.
Lloyd, R.E. 1908. On two new species of eagle-rays (Myliobatidae), with notes on the skull of the genus Ceratoptera. Records of the Indian Museum 2(2): 175-180.
Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, G. 1987. A revisionary study of the genus Mobula Rafinesque, 1810 (Chondrichthyes: Mobulidae) with the description of a new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 91(1): 1-91.
Whitley, G.P. 1936. The Australian devil ray, Daemomanta alfredi (Krefft), with remarks on the superfamily Mobuloidea (order Batoidei). The Australian Zoologist 8(3): 164-188.
