Mola (Sunfish) Range
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Type: Fish Diet: Omnivore Average life span in captivity: Up to 10 years Size: 11 ft (3.3 m) Weight: Up to 5,000 lbs (2,250 kg) Group name: School Did you know?
Common mola, Mola mola
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Where are they found? Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean ...
Mola mola - 2
Portuguese Man-o-war - 1
Thanks as always to the BBC (and Ida in particular) for making sure this trip went, to Capt. Joe, Matt the mate, and the rest of the Helen H for these consistently professional and accommodating trips.
ITIS Mola mola
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External links
Ocean Sunfish research and information, Tierney Thys, PhD
Ocean Sunfish Photographs, Mike Johnson Marine Natural History Photography
Ocean Sunfish Photographs, Phillip Colla Photography ...
Mola mola, Ocean Sunfish
Monocentris japonica, Pineconefish
Montastraea cavernosa, Great Star Coral
Montastraea annularis, Boulder Star Coral
Morus bassanus, Northern Gannet
Morus capensis, Cape Gannet
Morus serrator, Australian Gannet ...
Southern Ocean Sunfish, Mola ramsayi
Southern Ocean Sunfish, Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883)
Southern Red Scorpionfish, Scorpaena papillosa
Southern Ribbonfish skin
Southern Ribbonfish with mouth protruded ...
Sunfish (Mola mola)
Brown hydra (Hydra oligactis)
Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri)
Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Chunky salamander (Pseudoeurycea cephalica)
Shasta salamander (Hydromantes shastae)
Little tern (Sterna albifrons) ...
Sea turtles, ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and blue rockfish all are able to eat large jellyfish, seemingly without being affected by the nematocysts.
The totally unrelated ocean sunfish, or headfish, Mola mola, of the family Molidae, is allied to the puffer. Sunfishes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Perciformes, family Centrachidae.
Aluterus monoceros (Unicorn leatherjacket)
Arothron hispidus (White-spotted puffer)
Mola mola (Ocean sunfish)
Rhinecanthus aculeatus (Picasso fish or Humuhumu) ...
 See also: Cod, Sunfish, Shark, Ocean sunfish, Atlantic Cod
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