Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes
Author
Biscoito, Manuel
Author
Ribeiro, Cláudia
Author
Freitas, Mafalda
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-07
4429
3
459
494
journal article
29945
10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2
afb60108-82be-4cff-9898-088349da5006
1175-5326
1285016
17EAB027-D9FB-4B8A-9847-3AA76EC96FCB
Family
Mobulidae
Mobula tarapacana
(Philippi, 1892)
—Manta-cornuda; Chilean devil ray
Carneiro
et al
. 2014
: 16.
Distribution in Macaronesia.
possibly
Madeira
archipelago,
Azores
(
Porteiro
et al
. 2010
), Canary Islands (
Brito
et al
. 2002
; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003) and
Cape Verde
(
Reiner 2005
;
Wirtz
et al
. 2013
;
Hanel & John 2014
).
Remarks.
no specimens from
Madeira
could be located in natural history collections.
Wirtz
et al
. (2008)
mention that
M. mobular
sightings may eventually be
M. tarapacana
. A similar situation seems to occur in the Canary Islands (
Brito
et al
. 2002
). Until a solid proof of the occurrence of this species in Madeiran waters appears, we consider the presence of this species as in need of confirmation.