Mola mola: An enormous pelagic fish; examples have been taken weighing over 16 ewt .
Subject: Sunfishes, Mola Tag: Fish
Date 1921
Author Edgar Ravenswood Waite (1866–1928)
Source/Photographer
English: Edgar R. Waite (1921) Illustrated Catalogue of the Fishes of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia: G.Hassell & Son
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The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. The ocean sunfish is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. Mola mola resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally.
