Molidae
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Molidae
Name
- Homonyms
- Molidae
- Common names
- Headfishes in English
- Holdhalfélék in Hungarian
- Klumpfiskfamilien in Danish
- Klumpfiskfamilien in Danish
- Maanvissen in Dutch
- Molas in English
- Molas y Peces Luna in Spanish
- Mondfische in German
- Mėnulžuvinės in Lithuanian
- Ocean Sunfishes in English
- Peixes-lua in Portuguese
- Peixos lluna in Catalan–Valencian
- Pesci luna in Italian
- Sunfishes in English
- Trunkfishes in English
- headfishes in English
- headfishes in English
- klumpfiskar in Swedish
- maanvissen in Dutch
- molas in Spanish
- molas in English
- molas in English
- molas in English
- månefiskfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
- möhkäkalat in Finnish
- měsíčníkovití in Czech
- ocean sunfishes in English
- ocean sunfishes in English
- poissons-lune in French
- poissons-lune in French
- samogłowowate in Polish
- trunkfishes in English
- trunkfishes in English
- Μολίδες in Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Луны-рыбы in Russian
- Месяцы-рыбы in Belarusian
- Рибомісяцеві in Ukrainian
- ปลาหนังช้าง ฯลฯ in Thai
- วงศ์ปลาแสงอาทิตย์ in Thai
- マンボウ科 in Japanese
- 翻車魚 in Chinese
- 翻車魨科 in Chinese
- 개복치과 in Korean
- Sunfishes in English
- Sunfishes in English
- klumpfiskar in Swedish
- månefiskfamilien in Norwegian Bokmål
- månefiskfamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian
- マンボウ科 in Japanese
- Mondfische in German
Bibliographic References
- Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
- FishBase
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
- Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
- 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., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
- 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.
- Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
- Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
- WoRMS Editorial Board (2017) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
- van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374