#2029 · 🦈 sharks & rays
Reef Manta Ray
Mobula alfredi
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © uwkwaj · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © R Vasconcellos · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © salty_borg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Dragonfyre · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Rachel Crane · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Îles Tuamotu-Gambier, PF:© Etienne Guitton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. United States Minor Outlying Islands:© kdlafferty · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Papua Barat, ID:© Frank Krasovec · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Hawaii, US:© Sarah Wilson · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,583 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Reef Manta Ray
- scientific name
- Mobula alfredi
- class
- Chondrichthyes
- order
- Myliobatiformes
- family
- Mobulidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,583
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Mobulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 623965, Wikidata Q46459944, GBIF 9241141, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.