Mobula yarae occurs from the eastern United States to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
Notes on verification
Claim is verbatim consistent with FishBase, WoRMS, and popular science outlets, but all sources trace back to a single primary taxonomic description (Bucair et al. 2025). Lack of independent corroborating lines of evidence limits confidence despite consistent repetition. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.787 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=single on Bucair et al. 2025 original taxonomic description of Mobula yarae (upstreams: Bucair et al. 2025, Environmental Biology of Fishes (original species description), FishBase, World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Oceanic Manta Ray | MarineBio (seed:animals_and_wildlife)
- https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Mobula_yarae.html (corroboration)
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1830940&from=rss (corroboration)
- https://marinemegafauna.org/news/third-manta-ray-species-mobula-yarae-discovered-in-atlantic-ocean (corroboration)
- https://oceana.org/blog/a-new-manta-in-the-atlantic-meet-mobula-yarae/ (corroboration)