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Scientific Name | Mobula tarapacana (Philippi, 1892) |
Common Name | |
Type Locality | 12 miles west of Iquique, Tarapacà Province, Chile [southeastern Pacific]. |
Species Information | |
Size | 3280mm or 129.1" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
Habitat Information | |
Distribution | Circumtropical, recorded from scattered localities. Western Atlantic: off Venezuela. Eastern Atlantic: Côte d"Ivoire and South Africa. Reported from Cape Verde. Western Indian Ocean: northwestern Red Sea. Western Pacific: Japan, Taiwan, and probably tropical Australia. Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California and Chile. |
IUCN Red List Category | Endangered, range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2018. |
Husbandry Information | |
Breeding Reports | There is no breeding report. |
Further Information | |
Reference | Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile. Primera seccion, Zoología No. 3, pp 8, Pl. 3 (fig. 2). |
Registered Keepers | There is no registered keeper. |
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Spotters | Spotted this species somewhere? Click the binoculars! There is no record of this fish being seen. |
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Last Update | 2022 May 21 01:58 (species record created: 2021 Dec 26 05:02) |