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Table 1 Greatest point-to-point distances moved by individual Mobula alfredi

From: Photographic identification and citizen science combine to reveal long distance movements of individual reef manta rays Mobula alfredi along Australia’s east coast

Location

Species

Method

Distance (km)

Study

East Coast, Australia

M. alfredi

Photo-ID

650

(Couturier et al. 2014)

Maldives

M. alfredi

Photo-ID

650

(Stevens and Peschak 2016)

East Coast Australia

M. alfredi

Satellite tag

520

(Jaine et al. 2014)

Komodo NP, Indonesia

M. alfredi

Photo-ID

450

(Germanov and Marshall 2014)

Japan

M. birostris a

Photo-ID

350

(Homma 1997)

Red Sea, Saudi Arabia

M. alfredi

Satellite tag

169

(Braun et al. 2015)

Maldives

M. birostris a

Photo-ID

160

(Kitchen-Wheeler 2008)

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

M. alfredi

Acoustic track

100

(Setyawan et al. 2018)

Hawai’i

M. alfredi

Acoustic track

63

(Clark 2010)

Hawai’i

M. alfredi

Photo-ID

40

(Deakos et al. 2011)

  1. aIndicates the species was likely to be M. alfredi, but was published as M. birostris as these papers pre-date the redescription of the former (Marshall et al. 2009)