title: Occurrence of the Chilean devil ray Mobula tarapacana (Elasmobranchii: Batoidea: Myliobatiformes) in the Sea of Okhotsk: first record from cold temperate waters.
abstract: The northernmost record for Chilean devil ray Mobula tarapacana, a circumglobal species that occurs in tropical, subtropical and limited warm temperate waters, is described. An adult female was caught incidentally in the Sea of Okhotsk on 17 September 2011. This specimen is the first confirmed occurrence of devil rays Mobula spp. in cold temperate waters.
authors.affiliation: The Hokkaido University Museum, 3-1-1, Minato-cho, Hakodate, 041-8611, Hokkaido, Japan. t-tomita@museum.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsubara
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nagata
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003080:Cold Temperature; D005260:Female; D007564:Japan; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D012860:Skates, Fish / Q000033:anatomy & histology
keywords: Chondrichthyes; Hokkaido; Mobulidae; distribution; oceanic climate zones