Endangered
Lesser devil ray
Mobula hypostoma
Lesser devil ray is an eagle ray in the family Myliobatidae (order Myliobatiformes) — Mobula hypostoma, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Dorsal coloration varies from light brown to black, although some specimens have been reported as blue. Individuals sometimes possess a dark grey collar between their spiracles.
Lesser devil rays are relatively small, with a maximum width of about 125 cm (49 in).
Range and habitat
The related Mobula rochebrunei has occasionally been recovered as a junior synonym of M. Hypostoma, extending the species' range to the eastern Atlantic.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Rays feed on the bottom or in open water depending on the family. Nets and shallow-water fisheries are the usual human contact.
Sharks and rays grow slowly and have few young. A fishery that treats them as bycatch can empty a coastal form.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Lesser devil ray is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Lesser devil ray, Wikidata item Q4548397. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
