Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,455
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
Description
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. It was formerly misidentified as the heaviest bony fish, which is actually a different and closely related species of sunfish, Mola alexandrini.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ocean sunfish”.