Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 29

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).