The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola 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...
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giant sunfish or bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini), (also known as the Ramsay's sunfish, southern sunfish, southern ocean sunfish, short sunfish or bump-head...
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the genus of true sunfish Molidae, the family of ocean sunfishes Mola (fish), or sunfish Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, common...
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The Molidae comprise the family of the molas or ocean sunfishes, unusual fish whose bodies come to an end just behind the dorsal and anal fins, giving...
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mouths. Ocean sunfish can become infested with skin parasites, so they will often invite small fish or even birds to feast on them. Sunfish will even...
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Mola tecta (redirect from Hoodwinker sunfish)
the hoodwinker sunfish, belongs to the family Molidae and genus Mola. It is closely related to the more widely known ocean sunfish (Mola mola). The...
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Pelagic fish (redirect from Ocean fish)
swim in schools weighing hundreds of tonnes. Others, such as the large ocean sunfish, are solitary. There are also freshwater pelagic fish in some of the...
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USS Sunfish (SSN-649), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the ocean sunfish (Mola mola)...
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the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), but can be distinguished by the projection on its clavus (pseudo-tail). Other common names include sharpfin sunfish, point-tailed...
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ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Sunfish, named in honor of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, a plectognath marine fish, having a deep...
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Tosashimizu, Kōchi (section Ocean sunfish swim)
a cage 300 m offshore. Between April and the end of July each year, ocean sunfish are kept in a net cage 10 m by 10 m and 5 m deep. When the water temperature...
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can range in size from Paedocypris, at 8 mm (0.3 in); to the massive ocean sunfish, at 2,300 kg (5,070 lb); and to the giant oarfish, at 11 m (36 ft)....
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The first USS Sunfish (SS-281), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, a plectognath...
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Austromola is an extinct genus of ocean sunfish. It contains a single species, A. angerhoferi, known from the Lower Miocene Ebelsberg Formation near Pucking...
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Marine conservation (redirect from Ocean conservation)
November 2003). "Tracking Ocean Sunfish, Mola mola with Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tags in California Waters". OceanSunfish.org. Archived from the original...
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several groups of fishes: Family Monodactylidae (properly moonyfishes) Ocean sunfish is called "moon fish" in many languages Opah, genus Lampris Genus Citharinus...
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The Sunfish is a personal-size, beach-launched sailing dinghy. It features a very flat, boardlike hull carrying an Oceanic lateen sail mounted to an un-stayed...
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excelsus (a filefish), measuring just 2 cm (0.79 in) in length, to the ocean sunfish, the largest of all bony fishes at up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in length and...
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are the lesser known southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) followed by widely distributed and better known ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and, both being members...
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marine biologist who specializes in the study of ocean sunfish. She is known for identifying the ocean sunfish species Mola tecta. Marianne Nyegaard is a PhD...
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Tetraodontiformes, an order that includes pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish; several of these species carry the toxin. Although...
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with new records from the Mediterranean Sea and a first record of the ocean sunfish Mola mola (Osteichthyes: Molidae) as stomach contents". Environmental...
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Teleosts range from giant oarfish measuring 7.6 m (25 ft) or more, and ocean sunfish weighing over 2 t (2.0 long tons; 2.2 short tons), to the minute male...
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Marine life (redirect from Ocean life)
enormous diversity, and range in size from adult gobies 8mm long to ocean sunfish weighing over 2,000 kg. The following images show something of the diversity...
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smallest remoras travel in the mouths or gills of large manta rays, ocean sunfish, swordfish and sailfish. The relationship between a remora and its host...
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!!! #starwars #voiceover @LSWGame" (Tweet) – via Twitter. "Star Ocean: The Divine Force (2022 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved...
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during evolution (e.g. pelvic fins in †Bobasatrania, caudal fin in ocean sunfish). In some clades, additional unpaired fins were acquired during evolution...
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Aqua World (section Ocean Zone)
under the fish. The 270-cubic-metre (71,000 US gal) sunfish tank contains eight individual ocean sunfish. In particular, aquariums focusing on breeding the...
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Portuguese man o' war (category Cnidarians of the Atlantic Ocean)
Nuno (2016). "DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 28762. Bibcode:2016NatSR...628762S. doi:10...
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relationship between a school of 57 ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and Laysan and black-footed albatrosses. The sunfish were infected with the mesoparasitic...
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