Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dataset
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Teleostei
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Molidae
- genus
- Mola
- species
- Mola mola
Name
- Synonyms
- Aledon storeri Castelnau, 1861
- Cephalus brevis Shaw, 1804
- Cephalus ortagoriscus Risso, 1827
- Cephalus pallasianus Shaw, 1804
- Diodon carinatus Mitchill, 1828
- Diodon mola Pallas, 1770
- Diodon nummularis Walbaum, 1792
- Diplanchias nasus Rafinesque, 1810
- Mola aculeata Koelreuter, 1766
- Mola aspera Nardo, 1827
- Mola hispida Nardo, 1827
- Mola rotunda Cuvier, 1797
- Molacanthus pallasii Swainson, 1839
- Orthagoriscus analis Ayres, 1859
- Orthragoriscus alexandrini Ranzani, 1839
- Orthragoriscus blochii Ranzani, 1839
- Orthragoriscus elegans Ranzani, 1839
- Orthragoriscus fasciatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
- Orthragoriscus ghini Ranzani, 1839
- Orthragoriscus hispidus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
- Homonyms
- Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common names
- Ocean Sunfish in English
- mola in Spanish
- môle in French
- ocean sunfish in English
- pez luna in Spanish
Bibliographic References
- Claro, Rodolfo, and Lynne R. Parenti / Claro, Rodolfo, Kenyon C. Lindeman, and L. R. Parenti, eds., 2001: Chapter 2: The Marine Ichthyofauna of Cuba. Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba. 21-57.
- Klein-MacPhee, Grace / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Ocean Sunfishes: Family Molidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 603-607.
- Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
- Page, L. M., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, R. N. Lea, N. E. Mandrak, et al., eds., 2013: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Seventh Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 34. 243.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.