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Mobula

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Mobula (Mobula) is the marine animal followed in the study “Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) home range in Indonesia”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 31 Mar 2015, 12:00 am. Released by Movebank. The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.

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Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) home range in Indonesia: 2536 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 21 Feb 2015, 11:45 am → 31 Mar 2015, 12:00 am · 63 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
271 km
Segments / gaps
5 / 4
Longest gap
5.3 days
Median interval
2.6 h
Fastest segment
5.7 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 63 flags
  • source qc · 63 flags across 63 reports
    Source QC flags: sensor:gps.

4 gap(s) longer than the 72 h gap rule; the route during each gap is unknown.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite gpssatellite_gps——Status unknown63

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References

  1. Setyawan E, Sianipar A, Mambrasar R, Erdmann M. 2025. Data from: Staying close to home: horizontal movements of satellite-tracked reef manta rays Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868) in the world’s largest manta sanctuary. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.626 These data are described in Setyawan E, Sianipar AB, Mambrasar R, Izuan M, Hasan AW, Fahmi, Mujiyanto, Ambafen O, Mofu I, Putra MIH, et al. 2025. Staying close to home: horizontal movements of satellite-tracked reef manta rays Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868) in the world’s largest manta sanctuary. Fishes. 10(2):66. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10020066 A portion of these data is published with DOI 10.5441/001/1.3gj67c2k (study "Reef manta Komodo Indonesia") link · CC BY-NC 4.0

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