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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 10 June 2015, 5:46 pm. 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 10 Apr 2015, 3:18 pm → 10 June 2015, 5:46 pm · 33 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
236 km
Segments / gaps
6 / 5
Longest gap
11 days
Median interval
23.6 h
Fastest segment
29.7 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 34 flags
  • source qc · 33 flags across 33 reports
    Source QC flags: sensor:gps.
  • implausible displacement rate · 1 flag across 2 reports
    Displacement of 2 km in 0.1 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

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

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite gpssatellite_gps——Status unknown33

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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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