Fig. 1
From: Southernmost record of the Giant Manta Ray Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) in the Eastern Pacific
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) composite and location of the southernmost sighting of Mobula birostris off Peruvian Central Coast. Geographic demarcation showing the Pacific Central–American Coastal Large Marine Ecosystem (PCAC–LME) and the Humboldt Current LME (HC–LME) on black lines; and the Tropical East Pacific Marine Province (TEP–MP) and the Warm Temperate Southeastern Pacific MP (WTSP–MP) on blue lines. Exact location of the sighting is marked with ◄ on the extended figure to the right. The 8–day composite (19–26 December 2015) was obtained from the Aqua MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) (11 μ daytime) satellite (http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and the regions polygons from the Marine Regions http://www.marineregions.org/sources.php