Guide to the manta & devil rays of the world /
Manta and devil rays are some of the most intriguing creatures in the ocean. Driven forward by powerful beats of wing-like pectoral fins, these filter feeders search the waters for prey, their horn-like head fins giving rise to ancient mariners' tales of fearsome devilfish dragging boats into t...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- An introduction to manta and devil rays
- Taxonomy and evolution
- Mobulid genetics
- Feeding strategies
- Leaping devils
- Cleaning giants
- Predators and wound healing
- Intestinal eversion and vomiting
- Remoras and hitchhikers
- Courtship and mating
- Mating scars
- Gestation and pupping
- Big and brainy
- Patterning and morphs
- Morphology
- Spiracles
- Gill plates
- Sexual dimorphism
- Species accounts
- Species key
- Reef Manta Ray, Mobula alfredi
- Oceanic Manta Ray, Mobula birostris
- Longhorned Pygmy Devil Ray, Mobula eregoodootenkee
- West Atlantic Pygmy Devil Ray, Mobula hypostoma
- Shorthorned Pygmy Devil Ray, Mobula kuhlii
- Spinetail Devil Ray, Mobula mobular
- Munk's Pygmy Devil Ray, Mobula munkiana
- East Atlantic Pygmy Devil Ray, Mobula rochebrunei
- Sicklefin Devil Ray, Mobula tarapacana
- Bentfin Devil Ray, Mobula thurstoni
- Caribbean Manta Ray, Mobula cf. birostris
- Mobulids and people
- Threats to mobulids
- Fisheries
- Gill plate trade
- Bycatch and discard
- Conserving mobulids
- Protective legislation
- Marine Protected Areas
- Citizen science
- Manta identification
- Swimming with mobulids
- Code of conduct
- Appendices
- Data collection protocols
- Law enforcement and trade monitoring guide to the gill plates of mobulids.