Table 5. The size at maturity at which 50% (DW50) of males are mature in this study (Fig. 4) compared with the other two published datasets from the region.
DW
50
(from this study) |
DW50Philippines (Rambahiniarison et al., 2018) |
DW50 Indonesia (White et al., 2006) |
|
---|---|---|---|
Mobula birostris | 385.53 | 381.9 | 375.2 |
Mobula mobular | 202.51 | 205.8 | 201.6 |
Mobula tarapacana | 239.99 | 252.1 | 248.6 |
Mobula thurstoni | 142.78 | 158.4 | 153.8 |
Mobula kuhlii | 102.87 | – | 115-119a |
Notes.
Range at which maturity was attained (n = 8 samples; insufficient to determine DW50).