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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 22 July 2015, 6:00 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 16 June 2015, 10:45 am → 22 July 2015, 6:00 pm · 246 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
1,274 km
Segments / gaps
1 / 0
Longest gap
not available
Median interval
1.7 h
Fastest segment
32.4 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 247 flags
  • source qc · 246 flags across 246 reports
    Source QC flags: sensor:gps.
  • implausible displacement rate · 1 flag across 2 reports
    Displacement of 1 km in 0.0 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite gpssatellite_gps——Status unknown246

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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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