Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) .

Giant Manta or Manta. To at least 7 m (23 ft) DW (Weigman 2016), and unconfirmed to 9.1 m (29.8 ft) DW (Last and Stevens 2009). Circumglobal in warm waters mainly between 40°N and 40°S (Last et al. 2016); western Pacific Ocean north to Okinawa (Aonuma and Yoshino in Nakabo 2002); Santa Barbara, southern California (Ebert 2003) to Peru (12°S) (Moreno and Gonzalez-Pestana 2017), including Gulf of California (McEachran and Notarbartolo di Sciara in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); sighting (unverifiable) reported from Prince Willam Sound, Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985). Pelagic; depth: surface to at least 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Weigman 2016).