Mobula alfredi

Mobula alfredi.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dasyatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Batoidea Superordo: Batomorphii Ordo: Myliobatiformes Subordo: Myliobatoidei Superfamilia: Dasyatoidea

Familia: Mobulidae
Genus: Mobula
Species: Mobula alfredi

Name

Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868)

• Holotype (unique): AMS I.1731 (stuffed and painted over)

Type locality: Watson's Bay, at entrance to Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology: in honor of Prince Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900), who was visiting Sydney at the time this “royal fish” was caught and posed for photographs with it. (From The ETYFish Project)

Synonyms

• Deratoptera alfredi Krefft, 1868

References

• Kashiwagi, T., Marshall, A. D., Bennett, M. B. & Ovenden, J. R., 2012: The genetic signature of recent speciation in manta rays (Manta alfredi and M. birostris). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 212–218. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.020

• Krefft, J. L. G., 1868: Deratoptera alfredi (Prince Alfred's ray). The Illustrated Sydney News 5 (11 July 1868): 3, 9.

• Marshall, A.D.; Compagno, L.J.V.; Bennett, M.B. 2009: Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae). Zootaxa, 2301: 1–28. Abstract & excerpt
• White, W.T., Corrigan, S., Yang, L., Henderson, A.C., Bazinet, A.L., Swofford, D.L. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2018. Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: Mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(1): 50–75. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx018 . Reference page. 

Links

• Mobula alfredi in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Mobula alfredi in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Riffmanta
English: Reef Manta Ray, Prince Alfred's Ray
français: Raie manta de récif
ไทย: ปลากระเบนแมนตาแนวปะการัง

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