thurstoni, Dicerobatis Lloyd [R. E.] 1908:179, Fig. 3, Pl. 4 (fig. 2) [Records of the Indian Museum (Calcutta) v. 2 (pt 2); ref. 14327] India. Syntypes: Madras Museum (whereabouts unknown). •Valid, but possibly a synonym of Mobula eregoodoo (Cantor 1849) -- (Compagno 1999:498 [ref. 25589]). •Valid as Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908) -- (Notarbartolo-di-Sciara 1987:36 [ref. 9133], Randall 1994:260 [ref. 21644], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:viii [ref. 21953], Allen & Robertson 1994:37 [ref. 22193], Last & Stevens 1994:463 [ref. 23873], Randall 1995:51 [ref. 22896], Acero P. & Franke 1995:18 [ref. 22546], McEachran & Notarbartolo-di-Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995:763 [ref. 22829], Castro-Aguirre & Espinosa Pérez 1996:60 [ref. 22793], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:131 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:73 [ref. 24555], Compagno & Last 1999:1529 [ref. 24637], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Thomson et al. 2000:284 [ref. 25640], Gadig & Gomes in Menezes et al. 2003:31 [ref. 27192], Gadig et al. 2003:869 [ref. 27134], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Nelson et al. 2004:57 [ref. 27807], Compagno et al. 2005:82 [ref. 29145], Love et al. 2005:15 [ref. 37547], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Allen et al. 2006:208 [ref. 29002], Béarez & Séret 2009:145 [ref. 36646], Last el al. 2010:264 [ref. 32461], Page et al. 2013:57 [ref. 32708], Ebert et al. 2013:370 [ref. 33045], Psomadakis et al. 2015:109 [ref. 34104], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:138 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:146 [ref. 34211], Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016:[4] 200 [ref. 37502], Notarbartolo-di-Sciara & Séret 2016:1440 [ref. 34552], White & Last 2016:749 [ref. 35016], Nión et al. 2016:24 [ref. 35565], Ehemann et al. 2018:27 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:28 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:18 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36178], White et al. 2018:69 [ref. 37171], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:178 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:53 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:53 [ref. 38139], Zajonz et al. 2019:61 [ref. 36871], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:248 [ref. 37881], Psomadakis et al. 2020:216 [ref. 37272], Bessudo et al. 2021:[3] 1771 [ref. 39107], Ebert et al. 2021:102 [ref. 38234], González-Acosta et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38361], Haque et al. 2021:215 [ref. 38677], Myoung et al. 2021:149 [ref. 38863], Love et al. 2021:30 [ref. 39279], Ehemann et al. 2022:[3] 215 [ref. 40885], Fermon et al. 2022:110 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:15 [ref. 41326], Marshall 2022:633 [ref. 39677], Zajonz et al. 2022:34 [ref. 40522], Carvalho-Filho 2023:325 [ref. 40480], Mossbrucker et al. 2023:3 [ref. 41369], Page et al. 2023:48 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:86 [ref. 40816], Allen & Erdmann 2024:75 [ref. 40796], Boer et al. 2024:647 [ref. 41193], Bucair et al. 2024:7 [ref. 41220], Fricke et al. 2024:106 [ref. 41622], Gadig et al. 2024:90 [ref. 40775], Glaus et al. 2024:7 [ref. 40788], Harris 2024:[3] [ref. 41017]). Current status: Valid as Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908). Mobulidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in warm seas (including Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, South China Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of California/Mexico). IUCN (2019): Endangered. Habitat: marine.
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