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Molidae

Molidae
Temporal range: Mid/Late Eocene to present[1]
Mola mola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Suborder: Tetraodontoidei
Family: Molidae
Bonaparte, 1832
Genera[2]

Molidae is a family of giant ray-finned fish that include the famous ocean sunfish and others. They are part of the order Tetraodontiformes.

Description

The molas are different from other fishes. Instead, they have a large body looking like a giant fish head. They have the fewest vertebrae of any fish, with only 16 in Mola mola. Their skeleton is made of cartilage, much like a shark. They eat mushy animals like jellyfish and salps.

Genera

Extant

Extinct

The Hoodwinker Sunfish

References

  1. Tyler, James C.; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (1992). "New genus of primitive ocean sunfish with separate premaxillae from the Eocene of Southwest Russia (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes)". Copeia. 1992 (4).
  2. "World's heaviest bony fish identified and correctly named". Springer.com. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  1. ↑ Tyler, James C.; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (1992). "New genus of primitive ocean sunfish with separate premaxillae from the Eocene of Southwest Russia (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes)". Copeia. 1992 (4). Copeia, Vol. 1992, No. 4: 1014–1023. doi:10.2307/1446631. JSTOR 1446631.
  2. ↑ Matsuura, Keiichi (2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014" (PDF). Ichthyological Research. 62 (1): 72–113. Bibcode:2015IchtR..62...72M. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5. ISSN 1341-8998.

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