Mobula Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:48, 61 Fem. Mobula auriculata Rafinesque 1810 (= Raia mobular Bonnaterre 1788). Type by monotypy. Rafinesque's auriculata given as a substitute for Raja mobula of Lacepède (= R. mobular Bonnaterre). •Valid as Mobula Rafinesque 1810 -- (Krefft & Stehmann 1973:77 [ref. 7167], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:16 [ref. 6441], Compagno 1986:135 [ref. 5648], Cappetta 1987:177 [ref. 6348], Notarbartolo-Di-Sciara 1987 [ref. 9133], Paxton et al. 1989:51 [ref. 12442], Nishida 1990:98 [ref. 19783], Compagno & Last 1999:1525 [ref. 24637], Compagno 1999:498 [ref. 25589], McEachran & Carvalho 2003:587 [ref. 26985], Compagno et al. 2005:81 [ref. 29145], Allen et al. 2006:207 [ref. 29002], Marshall et al. 2009:1 [ref. 30599], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:16 [ref. 36649], Duffy 2015:203 [ref. 34217], Dyldin 2015:76 [ref. 34524], Duffy & Vogiatzis 2016:141 [ref. 34488], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:136 [ref. 34398], White & Last 2016:742 [ref. 35016], White et al. 2017:284 [ref. 35860], Dyldin & Orlov 2018:173 [ref. 35920], Ehemann et al. 2018:27 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:27 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:18 [ref. 36273], White et al. 2018:55 [ref. 37171], White & Ko'ou 2018:67 [ref. 35922], Brown et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:48 [ref. 36673], Ebert et al. 2021:100 [ref. 38234]). Current status: Valid as Mobula Rafinesque 1810. Mobulidae.