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Notarbartolo <i>et al.</i> (2020)

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2020-01-01

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Notarbartolo <i>et al.</i> (2020)

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Mobula mobular</jats:italic>, a mobulid species once considered a Mediterranean Sea endemic, has received its common name “giant devil ray” based on repeated misidentifications of oceanic manta rays, <jats:italic>Mobula birostris</jats:italic>, that had strayed into the Mediterranean, where they had never been reported from before. Based on the maximum known size (350 cm disc width) of <jats:italic>M. mobular,</jats:italic> when compared to some of its congenerics, the giant devil ray is not giant at all. A recent revision of the phylogeny and taxonomy of genus <jats:italic>Mobula</jats:italic>, which included, amongst other things, the decision to consider the circumtropical spinetail devil ray <jats:italic>M. japanica</jats:italic> a junior synonym of <jats:italic>M. mobular</jats:italic>, has caused the latter species to become circumglobal, and the only known mobulid with a tail spine. As a consequence, it is here recommended that the common name of <jats:italic>M. mobular</jats:italic> be “spinetail devil ray”.</jats:p>

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Mobula mobular</jats:italic>, a mobulid species once considered a Mediterranean Sea endemic, has received its common name “giant devil ray” based on repeated misidentifications of oceanic manta rays, <jats:italic>Mobula birostris</jats:italic>, that had strayed into the Mediterranean, where they had never been reported from before. Based on the maximum known size (350 cm disc width) of <jats:italic>M. mobular,</jats:italic> when compared to some of its congenerics, the giant devil ray is not giant at all. A recent revision of the phylogeny and taxonomy of genus <jats:italic>Mobula</jats:italic>, which included, amongst other things, the decision to consider the circumtropical spinetail devil ray <jats:italic>M. japanica</jats:italic> a junior synonym of <jats:italic>M. mobular</jats:italic>, has caused the latter species to become circumglobal, and the only known mobulid with a tail spine. As a consequence, it is here recommended that the common name of <jats:italic>M. mobular</jats:italic> be “spinetail devil ray”.</jats:p>

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2020-01-01

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Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Stevens, G. &amp; Fernando, D. 2020. The giant devil ray <em>Mobula mobular </em>(Bonnaterre, 1788) is not giant, but it is the only spinetail devil ray. <em>Marine Biodiversity Records</em>, 13(1): 1-5.

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10.1186/s41200-020-00187-0

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