Mobulidae

Mobulidae
Temporal range: 100.5โ€“0 Ma Late Cretaceous to Recent
Mobula birostris at Hin Daeng, Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Myliobatiformes
Suborder: Myliobatoidei
Superfamily: Dasyatoidea
Family: Mobulidae
Gill, 1893[1]
Genera
  • Mobula
  • Manta (sometimes considered to be a synonym of Mobula)

The Mobulidae (manta rays and devilfishes) are a family of rays consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gill, 1893 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).