Verified records of Kuhl’s devil ray (Mobula kuhlii) in the Solomon Islands from citizen scientists
A. Chin
A C , C. Rigby A , A. Short and W. T. White B
A College of Science and Engineering, Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia.
B Australian National Fish Collection, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, Hobart, Tas. 7000, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: andrew.chin@jcu.edu.au
Pacific Conservation Biology 26(1) 100-101 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC18088
Submitted: 4 December 2018 Accepted: 1 April 2019 Published: 22 May 2019
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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