Devil ray
Mobula mobular
Sighting evidence at Los Lobos — La Baja del Ganado
Photo: guillaume_papuga · CC BY-NC
The spinetail devil ray is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and the Los Lobos channel is one of the most accessible sites in European waters to encounter groups reliably. Groups arrive in spring as Canary Current upwelling intensifies, feeding on plankton concentrations at the shelf edge. Their disc width reaches up to 3 m and schools congregate in tight formation at 15 to 20 m, banking in coordinated turns that suggest collective navigation toward zooplankton patches detected by their cephalic fins.
Evidence at this site
No confirmed records on file at this site
Devil ray is listed as a curated species here based on historical reports.