Verified records of Kuhl’s devil ray (Mobula kuhlii) in the Solomon Islands from citizen scientists

2019/05/22 by A. Chin, C. Rigby, A. Short +1 · 1 citation

paper · doi:10.1071/pc18088

Abstract

Citizen science provides valuable information about species distributions. The Shark Search Indo-Pacific project received photographs of devil rays (Mobula spp.) from the Solomon Islands that were identified as Kuhl’s devil ray (Mobula kuhlii). These records represent new knowledge about the range and distribution of a poorly known species in an undersampled region.

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