Mobulidae
| Mobulidae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to Recent
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| Mobula birostris at Hin Daeng, Thailand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Batomorphi |
| Order: | Myliobatiformes |
| Family: | Mobulidae Gill, 1893[1] |
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The Mobulidae are a family of rays (manta rays and devilfishes) consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The Mobulidae have been variously considered a subfamily of the Myliobatidae by some authors,[2][3] and a distinct family by others, but recent work favors the latter.[4] Two genera have been traditionally recognized, Manta and Mobula, but recent DNA analysis shows that Mobula as traditionally recognized is paraphyletic to manta rays, making Manta a junior synonym of Mobula and Mobula the only extant genus of the family.[5]
Fossil record
[edit | edit source]Several genera of fossil mobulids are known, including Archaeomanta, Burnhamia, Eomobula, and Paramobula.[6][page needed][7][8]
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