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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 ...
Only five extant species in three extant genera are described: Ocean sunfish ; Southern ocean sunfish (Mola alexandrini), has been recognized as a senior synonym of Mola ramsayi (Gaglioli 1889), the "bump-head sunfish" [9] [10] [11] Hoodwinker sunfish ; Slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) Sharptail mola (Masturus lanceolatus)
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 ...
Dec. 2 video of an ocean sunfish, spotted near Laguna Beach, Calif., has gone viral. The huge sea creature swam in between two paddleboarders.
Fisherman Sean Bailey captured impressive close-up footage of a huge mola lurking next to his boat off San Diego, California.Found in temperate and tropical oceans, ocean sunfish (Mola mola ...
The giant sunfish or bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini), [3] (also known as the Ramsay's sunfish, southern sunfish, southern ocean sunfish, short sunfish or bump-head sunfish in various parts of the world), [4] is a fish belonging to the family Molidae. It is closely related to the more widely known Mola mola, and is found in the Southern ...
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 giant species of fish that was first discovered seven years ago washed ashore in Oregon last week, according to marine biologists who study the animal.