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Mobula mobular 122443097🐟

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SpeciesMyliobatiformesMyliobatidae
Sharks & rays

🐟Devil fish

Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)

쥐가오리는 쥐가오리과에 속하는 가오리류의 일종이다. 학명은 모불라 모불라르(Mobula mobular)이며 동종이명으로는 모불라 야파니카(Mobula japanica)가 존재한다. 영어권 지역에서는 외형이 악마를 닮았다고 하여 데블 피시(Devil fish)나 데블 레이(Devil ray) 등으로 부르고 있다. 쥐가오리는 지중해에 서식하는 유일한 모불리드(Mobulid) 종이다. 이 종은 최대 디스크 폭이 5.2미터(약 17피트)로 기록된 바 있다. 그러나 이 데이터는 신뢰할 수 없으며, 거대악마가오리가 아니라 지중해에 표류한 거대한 해양 맨타가오리로 오해된 것일 수 있다고 한다. 또한, 쥐가오리는 꼬리 척추를 가진 유일한 악마물고기로 간주된다.

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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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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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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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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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