Mobula Rafinesque, 1810

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Rafinesque, Constantine S. 1810. Indice d’ittiologia siciliana; ossia, catalogo metodico dei nomi latini, italiani, e siciliani dei pesci, che si rinvengono in Sicilia disposti secondo un metodo naturale e seguito da un appendice che contiene la descrizione de alcuni nuovi pesci sicilian. , Messina.: 1-70.

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: class
Elasmobranchii: order
Myliobatiformes: family
Myliobatidae: genus
Mobula

Name

Synonyms: Anodon Agassiz, 1846; Apterurus Agassiz, 1846; Apterurus Rafinesque, 1810; Apturus Rafinesque, 1815; Cephaloptera Cuvier; Cephalopteram Griffith, 1834; Cephalothoptera Griffith, 1835; Ceratobatis Boulenger, 1897; Diarobatus Agassiz, 1845; Dicerobatis Blainville, 1825; Dicerobatus Blainville, 1816; Pterocephala Swainson, 1839; Pterocephalus Swainson, 1838
Homonyms: Mobula Rafinesque, 1810
Common names: devil ray in English; devil rays in English; イトマキエイ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed., 1999: Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs. Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. 471-498.
Eschmeyer online (Jun 2012)
Eschmeyer online (Jun 2012)
Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
FishBase
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019.
Ind. Itt. Sic.
Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006).
SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560.
WoRMS (Mar 2013)
WoRMS (Mar 2013)
van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374