kuhlii, Cephaloptera Valenciennes [A.] in Müller & Henle 1841:185, [Pl. 59 (left)] [Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen; ref. 3069] India. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-1596. Possible paralectotypes: BMNH 2008.12.1.1 [ex ZSL] (1, stuffed and mounted). Type catalog: Bertin 1939:92 [ref. 20739], Séret & McEachran 1987:26 [ref. 9312]. Lectotype listed in Séret & McEachran 1987:26 [ref. 9312] on verbal information from Notarbartolo-di-Sciara; it is uncertain if this established the lectotype -- see Compagno et al. 2005:81 [ref. 29145]. Subsequent workers perhaps established the lectotype. Authorship changed to Valenciennes 1841 -- Jones et al. 2015:570 [ref. 34086]. •Synonym of Mobula diabolus (Shaw 1804) -- (Dor 1984:22 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes 1841) -- (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1987:47 [ref. 9133], Randall 1995:51 [ref. 22896], Compagno & Last 1999:1528 [ref. 24637], Compagno 1999:498 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Compagno et al. 2005:81 [ref. 29145] with author as Valenciennes, Last el al. 2010:262 [ref. 32461], Psomadakis et al. 2015:109 [ref. 34104], Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016:[5] 201 [ref. 37502], Weigmann 2016:145 [ref. 34211] needs further examination, may be Mobula eregoodootenkee, White & Last 2016:745 [ref. 35016] with authorship as Müller & Henle, White et al. 2017:288 [ref. 35860], Fricke et al. 2018:28 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:18 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36178], White & Ko'ou 2018:68 [ref. 35922], White et al. 2018:69 [ref. 37171], Chin et al. 2019:[A] 100 [ref. 37669], Eagderi et al. 2019:13 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:48 [ref. 36673], Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2019:[9] [ref. 37090], Bineesh et al. 2020:26 [ref. 37641], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 4 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:215 [ref. 37272], Ebert et al. 2021:101 [ref. 38234], Haroon & Kibria 2021:131 [ref. 39241], Ray & Mohapatra 2021:494 [ref. 38156], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:48 [ref. 41223], Hsu et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39567], Marshall 2022:631 [ref. 39677], Zajonz et al. 2022:33 [ref. 40522], Allen & Erdmann 2024:74 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes 1841). Mobulidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Solomon Islands, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.