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Life History

by Tierney Thys | Aug 29, 2018 | Species and Distribution

  Mola mola (Common mola) The most common and widespread of ocean sunfish in the northern hemisphere is Mola mola. These fish, like all ocean sunfishes, appear as if their bodies have been somehow truncated leaving them little more than a large head punctuated...

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  • Hook, line, and social media: crowd-sourced images reveal size and species patterns of ocean sunfishes (Tetraodontiformes, Molidae) from California to Alaska
  • New northerly limit for the sharptail mola in the northeast Atlantic: first sighting of Masturus lanceolatus in the northeast Irish Sea
  • First long-term trajectory of an ocean sunfish (Mola mola L.) from the northwestern Mediterranean
  • Ocean Sunfish Symposium – February 23, 2021
  • Nothing to Sea Here: Public Told to Stop Calling Police About a Sunfish, It’s ‘FINE’
  • How a bizarre, monster fish hoodwinked researchers and reeled in a wave of citizen scientists
  • Surprise sunfish species washes up on California shores
  • Bali 2015
  • Galapagos 2011
  • San Diego 2010
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