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Ocean Sunfish

Mola alexandrini

Classification

Family
Molidae

The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest ray-finned fish in the world. It is the type species of the genus Mola, and one of five extant species in the family Molidae. It was formerly misidentified as the heaviest bony fish, which is actually a different and closely related species of sunfish, Mola alexandrini.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Portugal · 3Mexico · 2United States of America · 2Brazil · 1Chile · 1France · 1