Manta ray, Manta birostris, devil ray, Mobula mobular, and reef manta ray, Manta alfredi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Dequevauviller after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds, Snakes, Fish and Cetaceans, Eymery, Paris, 1825.

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