Mobulidae
| Mobulidae Temporal range: Possible Late Cretaceous record[1] | |
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| Mobula birostris at Hin Daeng, Thailand | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Batomorphi |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Mobulidae Gill, 1893[2] |
| Genera | |
The Mobulidae are a family of rays (manta rays and devilfishes) consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
Taxonomy
[edit]The Mobulidae have been variously considered a subfamily of the Myliobatidae by some authors,[4][5] and a distinct family by others, though recent work favors the latter interpretation.[6] Two genera within the family have been traditionally recognized, Manta and Mobula, but recent DNA analysis shows that Mobula is paraphyletic to manta rays, making Manta a junior synonym of Mobula and Mobula the only extant genus of the family.[7]
Fossil record
[edit]Several genera of fossil mobulids are known from teeth, including Archaeomanta, Burnhamia, Eomobula, and Paramobula.[8][page needed][9][10] The earliest records of mobulids are of Archaeomanta from the Early Paleocene.[1] A potentially earlier record may be Cretomanta from the mid-Cretaceous, but this genus may represent a planktivorous shark potentially related to Aquilolamna.[11][12]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Archived from the original on 2025-08-12. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
- ↑ Theodore Gill (1893). "Families and Subfamilies of Fishes". Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. 6 (6): 130.
- ↑ https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/182/1/50/3886052?login=false
- ↑ Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). "Subfamily Mobulinae (devil rays)". Fishes of the World (4th ed.). Hoboken: Wiley. p. 82. ISBN 9780471756446.
- ↑ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). "Subfamily Mobulinae (devil rays)". Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: Wiley. pp. 94–95. doi:10.1002/9781119174844.ch2.
- ↑ White, W. T.; Last, P. R. (2016). "Devilrays: Family Mobulidae". In Last, Peter R.; White, William T.; de Carvalho, Marceo R.; Séret, Bernard; Stehmann, Matthias F. W.; Naylor, Gavin J. P. (eds.). Rays of the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 741–749. ISBN 9781501705328.
- ↑ White, William T.; Corrigan, Shannon; Yang, Lei; Henderson, Aaron C.; Bazinet, Adam L.; Swofford, David L.; Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2017). "Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. zlx018: 50–75. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx018.
- ↑ Cappetta, H. (1987). Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii. Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Vol. 3B. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
- ↑ Herman, J.; Hovestadt-Euller, M.; Hovestadt, D. C. (1989). "Additions to the Eocene fish fauna of Belgium. 9. Discovery of Eomobula gen. et. sp. nov. (Mobulidae, Chondrichthyes) from the Ypresian". Tertiary Research. 10 (4). Leiden: 175–178.
- ↑ Cicimurri, David J.; Knight, James L. (2009). "Late Oligocene Sharks and Rays from the Chandler Bridge Formation, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54 (4): 627–647. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0077.
- ↑ Nagrodski, Matthew; Shimada, Kenshu; Schumacher, Bruce A. (2012-10-01). "Marine vertebrates from the Hartland Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Upper Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado, USA". Cretaceous Research. 37: 76–88. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.007. ISSN 0195-6671.
- ↑ Vullo, Romain; Frey, Eberhard; Ifrim, Christina; González González, Margarito A.; Stinnesbeck, Eva S.; Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang (2021-03-19). "Manta-like planktivorous sharks in Late Cretaceous oceans". Science. 371 (6535): 1253–1256. doi:10.1126/science.abc1490.
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