Recommended Manta Ray Literature

Alava, M.N.R., Dolumbaló, E.R.Z., Yaptinchay, A.A. & Trono, R.B. (2002) Fishery and trade of whale sharks and manta rays in the Bohol Sea Philippeans. In: Fowler, S.L., Reed, T.M., Dipper, F.A. (Eds), Elasmobranch biodiversity, conservation and management: Proceedings of the international seminar and workshop. Sabah, Malaysia, July 1997. Occasional paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 25, pp. 132–148

Beebe, W. & Tee-Van, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVIII Fishes from the tropical eastern pacific. Part 3: Rays, Mantas, and Chimaeras. Zoologica, 26, 245–278.

Bigelow, H.B. & Schroeder, W.C. (1953) Sawfish, guitarfish, skates and rays. In: Bigelow, H.B. & Schroeder, W.C. (Eds) Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Part 2. Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University, New Haven, pp. 508–514.

Clark, T.B. (2002b) Population structure of Manta birostris from the Pacific Islands and Atlantic Oceans. Masters thesis, Texas A&M University.

Coles, R.J. (1916) Natural history notes on the devil-fish, Manta birostris (Walbaum) and Mobula olfersi (Müller). Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, 35, 649–657.

Dewar, H., Mous, P., Domeier, M., Muljadi, A., Pet, J. & Whitty, J. (2008) Movements and site fidelity of the giant manta ray, Manta birostris, in the Komodo Marine Park, Indonesia. Marine Biology, 155(2), 121-133.

Duffy, C.A.J. & Abbott, D. (2003) Sightings of mobulid rays from northern New Zealand, with confirmation of the occurrence of Manta birostris in New Zealand waters. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 37, 715-721.

Homma, K., Maruyama, T., Itoh, T., Ishihara, H. & Uchida, S. (1999) Biology of the manta ray, Manta birostris Walbaum, in the Indo- Pacific. In: Seret, B. & Sire, J.Y. (Eds.) Indo-Pacific fish biology: proceedings of the fifth international conference on Indo-Pacific fishes, Noumea, 1997. Ichthyological Society of France, France, pp. 209–216.

Ishihara, H., Homma, K. & Nakamura, R. (2001) The occurrence of albinism in individuals of the manta ray and Japanese common skate found in the western Pacific. I.O.P. Diving News, 12, 2–5.

Kitchen-Wheeler, A. (2008) Manta Rays: Research in the Maldives. Shark Focus, 31, 4.
Lesueur, C. A. (1824) Description of several species of the Linnaean genus Raia, of North America. Journal of the Academy of Natural Science Philadelphia 4, 100-121.

Luiz, O.J. Jr., Balboni, A.P., Kodja, G., Andrade, M. & Marum, H. (2008) Seasonal occurrences of Manta birostris (Chondrichthyes: Mobulidae) in southeastern Brasil. Ichthyology Research DOI-10.1007/s/0228-008-0060-3.

Marshall, A.D., Ishihara, H., Dudley, S.F.J., Clark, T.B., Jorgensen, S., Smith, W.D. & Bizzarro, J.J. (2006) Manta birostris. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Downloaded on 1 May 2009.

Marshall, A.D., Pierce, S.J. & Bennett, M.B. (2008) Morphological measurements of manta rays (Manta birostris) with a description of a foetus from the east coast of Southern Africa. Zootaxa, 1717, 24–30.

Marshall, A.D. (2009) Biology and population ecology of Manta birostris in southern Mozambique. PhD Thesis, University of Queensland.

Marshall, A. D., Compagno, L. J. V. & Bennett, M. B. (2009). Redescription of genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft,1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae). Zootaxa 2301: 1–28.

Mitchill, S. L. (1824) Description of a new and gigantic species of the genus Cephalopterus of Dumeril, pp. 23-29. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.

Notarbartolo-di Sciara, G. & Hillyer, E. V. (1989) Mobulid rays of the Eastern Venezuela (Chondrichthyes, Mobulidae). Copeia 1989(3), 607-614.

O’shea, O. R., Kingsford, M. J. & Seymour, J. (2010) Tide-related periodicity of manta rays and sharks to cleaning stations on a coral reef. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 65-73.

Rubin, R. (2002) Manta Rays: not all black and white. Shark Focus, 15, 4–5.

White, W. T., Dharmadi (2007) Species and size compositions and reproductive biology of rays (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) caught in target and non-target fisheries in eastern Indonesia. Journal of Fish Biology 70, 1809-1837.

White, W. T., Giles, J., Dharmadi & Potter, I. C. (2006a) Data on the bycatch fishery and reproductive biology of mobulid rays (Myliobatiformes) in Indonesia. Fisheries Research 82, 65-73.

White, W. T., Last, P. R., Stevens, J. D., Yearsley, G. K., Fahmi, Dharmadi (2006b) Economically important sharks and rays of Indonesia. pp. 280-289. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

Whitley, G.P. (1936) The Australian devilray, Daemomanta alfredi (Krefft), with remarks on the superfamily Mobuloidea (order Batoidei). Australian Zoologist, 8(3), 164–188.

Yano, K., Sato, F. & Takahashi, T. (1999) Observations of the mating behavior of the manta ray, Manta birostris, at the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Ichthyology Research, 46, 289–296.