New record of giant devil ray (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatidae) from Oran Bay (Western Meditteranean Sea)
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Date
2019-06-01
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The present paper reports a new record of Giant devil ray Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)from western Algerian waters that is encountered for the first time in that coast since its firstdescription in 1901 and last observation in late 80’s. This elasmobranch is categorized asendangered on the IUCN Red List (Endangered A2d ver 3.1) and is likely to be the rarest of the ninespecies of Mobula genus. Occasionally it is captured in Mediterranean Sea by purse seines,bottom and pelagic trawls, pelagic nets, bottom longlines, drifters and harpoons. The specimenstranded in “la Madrague Beach” in Western Algerian coasts. Its disc length was measuring108.96 cm and disc width was 226.02 cm. This Myliobatidae is rarely seen with daily landed fish atOran fishery. Up to date no explicit reason can be given for the strand of M. mobular but ghostfishing and important maritime traffic stay the most plausible cause of this incident.Journal
Indonesian Fisheries Research JournalVolume
25Issue/Article Nr
1Page Range
55-63Resource/Dataset Location
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