Mobula tarapacana, (PHILIPPI, 1892)

White, William T, Corrigan, Shannon, Yang, Lei, Henderson, Aaron C, Bazinet, Adam L, Swofford, David L & Naylor, Gavin J P, 2018, Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: obulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182 (1), pp. 50-75 : 71

MOBULA TARAPACANA (PHILIPPI, 1892)

CSIRO H 6660-06 (dorsal fin and tail only; tissue accession GN11236 ), female, Cilacap landing site, Central Java, Indonesia, 10 June 2002 ; CSIRO H 5885-06 (gill arch only), adult male, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok, Indonesia, 8 June 2002 ; CSIRO H 7406-04 (dorsal fin only), 278 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok, Indonesia, 4 March 2009 ; MNHN 1965-0144 (holotype of Mobula coilloti ), male, ~ 10 miles south of Iridi , Ivory Coast, western Africa, 13 March 1959 .

Photographed (not retained): adult male 288 cm DW, Cilacap landing site, Central Java, Indonesia, 2 July 2001 ; adult male 265 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 8 June 2002 ; female 201 cm DW, Cilacap landing site, Central Java, Indonesia, 10 June 2002 ; female 288.6 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 11 July 2004 ; female 318.2 cm DW, female 267 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 13 July 2004 ; male 186.7 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 12 October 2004 ; male 182.8 cm DW, female 219.5 cm DW, female 272.6 cm DW, female 246.9 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok, Indonesia, 19 January 2005 ; female 151 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 9 March 2005 ; male 194.2 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 10 July 2005 ; female 303.4 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 26 March 2006 ; female 258.7 cm DW, female 235.7 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 26 October 2008 ; 278 cm DW, Tanjung Luar landing site, Lombok , Indonesia, 4 March 2009 .

Not retained, tissue sampled: Tissue accession GN10564, Japan, 26 September 2012 .