Mola mola mola (Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Tetraodontiformes; Molidae; Mola; Mola mola; Yukon; Gulf of Alaska; Galapagos; Canada; Pacific; Milton; Howell; Dewar; O'Sullivan; Beaufort Sea; Northwest Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609980; https://zenodo.org/record/5609980

Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758). Mola or Ocean Sunfish . Confirmed to 2.7 m (8.9 ft) TL (Tierney Thys, pers. comm. to M.L.); possibly to 4 m (13.1 ft) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002), and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003; Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Las Cruces (33°29’S), central Chile (Brito 2003), including Gulf of California (Scott in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface to 844 m (2,768 ft) (min.: Clemens and Wilby 1946; max.: Potter and Howell 2011). Deepest known occurrence off eastern Pacific coast is 556 m (1,824 ft) (Thys et al. 2015). We note that the NWFSC-FRAM database contains a number of records of fish ostensibly caught by bottom trawls at depths deeper than 844 m (e.g., 942 m, 3,090 ft, 954 m, 3,129 ft, 1095 m, 3,592 ft, and 1,184 m, 3,884 ft). However, it is likely that all of these represent catches made in the water column during net deployment or retrieval. : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.", "Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.", "Brito, J. L. (2003) Nuevos registros de Balistes polylepis (Balistidae), Sphoeroides lobatus (Tetraodontidae), Mola mola y M. ramsayi (Molidae) en San Antonio, Chile (Pisces, Tetraodontiformes). Investigaciones Marinas, Valparaiso, 31, 77 - 83.", "Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.", "Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.", "Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1946) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.", "Potter, I. F. & Howell, W. H. (2011) Vertical movement and behavior of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in the northwest Atlantic. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 396, 138 - 146. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jembe. 2010.10.014", "Thys, T. M., Ryan, J. P., Dewar, H., Perle, C. R., Lyons, K., O'Sullivan, J., Farwell, C. Howard, M. J., Weng, K. C., Lavaniegos, B. E., Gaxiola-Castro, G., Bojorquez, L. E., Hazen, E. L & Bograd, S. J. (2015) Ecology of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in the southern California Current system. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 471, 64 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jembe. 2015.05.005"]}