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The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest bony fish in the world. It is the type species of the genus Mola, and one of five extant species in the family Molidae. [6] [7] It was once misidentified as the heaviest bony fish, which was actually a different and closely related species of sunfish, Mola ...
Kölreuter in 1766 published a fish name Mola but did not treat is as a Linnaean genus (i.e., not binominal), so the name is unavailable under the rules of the ICZN and cannot be used. [2] The first author who used the name Mola as a genus name was Linck in 1790, and this is therefore the oldest available name, with Tetraodon mola Linnaeus ...
There are three extant species under the genus Mola: Mola mola, Mola alexandrini, and Mola tecta. [7] Mola mola is the most common known ocean sunfish and was found in 1758 and Mola alexandrini (also called Mola ramsayi) was found 81 years afterward, in 1839. [7] [1] In comparison to its two relatives, Mola tecta was found recently in 2014. [8]
At least one fossil species of Mola, M. pileata (van Beneden, 1881), is known from the Upper and Middle Miocene of Europe with a possible second species known from the Lower Miocene of North Carolina, United States.
The ocean sunfish are in the genus Mola, currently composed of three species: Mola mola, Mola alexandrini, Mola tecta. [11] Also known as the southern ocean sunfish or southern sunfish, Mola alexandrini are commonly found in the epipelagic zone of the ocean, where enough light penetrates for photosynthesis to occur, although recent studies also ...
The sharptail mola (Masturus lanceolatus) is a species of mola found circumglobally in tropical and temperate waters. It is similar in appearance to the ocean sunfish ( Mola mola ), but can be distinguished by the projection on its clavus (pseudo-tail).
She spent the next four years working with other researchers in the Indo-pacific region to identify and describe Mola tecta. [1] [2] This research in identifying the species determined that they are roughly 50 cm to 2.5 m in size, and unlike other species they do not develop lumps on their bodies as they grow. Most distinctly, their back fin is ...
The mola carplet (Amblypharyngodon mola) is a species of carplet in the family Danionidae.It is found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, [2] although IUCN considers its presence certain only in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. [1]