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The slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only extant member of the genus Ranzania, [2] found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1 m (3.3 ft). Several stranding and mass stranding events have occurred on beaches near Albany, Western Australia. [3] [4]
They are also the largest of the ray-finned bony fish, with the southern sunfish, Mola alexandrini, recorded at 4.6 m (15 ft) in length [3] and 2,744 kg (6,049 lb) in weight. The family name comes from the ocean sunfish 's scientific name Mola mola , both its genus name and epithet come from the Latin word mola for " millstone " because of its ...
The nene is the official state bird of Hawaii.. This list of birds of Hawaii is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of Hawaii as determined by Robert L. and Peter Pyle of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and modified by subsequent taxonomic changes.
Ranzania laevis, the slender sunfish, the only extant species in the fish genus Ranzania (plant) , a genus of plants in the family Berberidaceae The genus Ranzania Bertoloni, 1855 (in the beetle family Scarabaeidae) is now called Rhamphorrhina Klug, 1855 .
A sunfish caught in 1910, with an estimated weight of 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) Despite their size, ocean sunfish are docile and pose no threat to human divers. [33] Injuries from sunfish are rare, although a slight danger exists from large sunfish leaping out of the water onto boats.
The hoodwinker sunfish is a congener of (in the same genus as) the more widely known ocean sunfish, Mola mola. Mola tecta , like other Mola species, has a flat, almost symmetrical oval shape. It has a smooth body shape, no bump and has a maximum length of 242 cm (about 7.9 feet). [ 5 ]
A herd of axis deer in Maui. Hawaii is the most isolated major land mass in the world and that isolation has led to very high rates of endemism.Uniquely adapted endemic species are often sensitive to competition from invasive species and Hawaii has had numerous extinctions (List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands).
The order was formerly classified as a suborder of the Perciformes but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World divided the Perciformes into a number of new orders and the Blenniiformes were placed in the percomorph clade Ovalentaria alongside the such taxa as Cichliformes, Mugiliformes and Gobiesociformes.