Galapagos Species Database
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Mobula thurstoni
Manta diablo, Devil ray
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Elasmobranchii
Order
Myliobatiformes
Family
Myliobatidae
Genus
Mobula
Species
thurstoni
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Dicerobatis thurstoni Lloyd, 1908, Mobula lucasana Beebe & Tee-Van, 1938 (Horton, 2021).
Origin: Vagrant
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Mossbrucker, M. Acuña-Marrero, D., Cundy, M., Fierro-Arcos, D., Suárez-Moncada, J., Rastoin-Laplaine, E., & Salinas-de-León, P. (2023) First records of two rays and three bony fishes for the Galapagos Islands. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 103, E28. doi:10.1017/S0025315423000176
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mobula thurstoni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24728. Accessed 1 November 2026.