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Mobula mobular 122443097🐟

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SpeciesMyliobatiformesMyliobatidae
Sharks & rays

🐟Devil fish

Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)

כנפתן ים-תיכוני או כנפתן שדי (שם מדעי: Mobula mobular; מכונה גם דג שטן ענק) הוא מין של דג סחוס ממשפחת הטחניים השייך לסוג כנפתן והוא המין הגדול ביותר בסוגו.

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Also called
Giant Devil Ray, Giant devilray
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1,500 kg
Body length
2.25 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Devil fish

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1,500 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
2.25 mrecord 5.2 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female2.4 mFishBasev25.04
Trophic level
3.54
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.54 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
1,500 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Devil fish yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderMyliobatiformes
  5. ›familyMyliobatidae
  6. ›genusMobula
  7. ›speciesMobula mobular
Full lineage
  1. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  2. familyMyliobatidae
  3. subfamilyMobulinae
  4. genusMobula
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. superorderBatoidea
  9. orderMyliobatiformes
  10. familyMyliobatidae
  11. subfamilyMobulinae
  12. genusMobula
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In other languages
Mobula mobular (es), Diable de mer méditerranéen (fr), Golub uhan (hr), Mobula (pl), Şeytan vatozu (tr), manta (ca) … and 18 more languages
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