Endangered
Mobula kuhlii
Mobula kuhlii
Mobula kuhlii is an eagle ray in the family Myliobatidae (order Myliobatiformes), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It is flattened horizontally with a wide central disc and the head is short with small cephalic fins. The dorsal surface of this fish is brown and does not bear any placoid scales, and the ventral surface is white.
The shortfin devil ray is a small eagle ray growing to a maximum width of 120 cm (47 in) and a weight of 30 kilograms (66 lb).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Indian Ocean and central-west Pacific Ocean. It ranges from South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania and the Seychelles in the west to the Philippines and Indonesia in the east, and southward to the northern coast of Australia.
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.
Mobula kuhlii 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 Mobula kuhlii, Wikidata item Q5015132. 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.
