Devil fish
Scientific name: Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Overview
The devil fish, giant devil ray, or simply the devil ray is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae. As of 2025, it is listed as critically endangered, mostly due to bycatch mortality in unrelated fisheries and a naturally slow reproductive rate.
From the Wikipedia article “Devil fish”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Common names
Also known in English as devil ray, Giant Devil Ray, Giant devilray.
Names in other languages (9)
- Arabic
- سمكة الشيطان
- Chinese
- 姬蝠鲼
- French
- Diable de mer méditerranéen, Diable des mers, Mante
- German
- Teufelsrochen
- Japanese
- イトマキエイ
- Persian
- اهریمنماهی
- Russian
- европейская мобула
- Spanish
- manta
- Turkish
- kulakli folya, seytan vatozu, Şeytan vatozu
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q1502150, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Devil fish”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026