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Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Tetraodontiformes
family
Molidae
genus
Mola
species
Mola mola

Name

Synonyms
Aledon capensis Castelnau, 1861
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 alexandrini (Ranzani, 1839)
Mola aspera Nardo, 1827
Mola hispida Nardo, 1827
Mola rotunda Cuvier, 1797
Molacanthus pallasii Swainson, 1839
Orthagoriscus alessandrini Ranzani, 1839
Orthagoriscus analis Ayres, 1859
Orthagoriscus mola
Orthragoriscus alexandrini Ranzani, 1839
Orthragoriscus analis Ayres, 1859
Homonyms
Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common names
Almindelig klumpfisk in Danish
Bucanj in Serbian
Common sunfish in English
Giant Sunfish in English
Giant sunfish in English
Headfish in English
Klumpfisk in Swedish
Klumpfisk in Danish
Klumpfisk in Danish
Lua in Portuguese
Maanvis in Dutch
Mambo in Romanian
Mola in Maltese
Mola in Spanish
Mola Ocean Sunfish in English
Mondfisch in German
Mondfisch in German
Mondfisch in German
Moonfish in English
Morski mesec in Slovenian
Månefisk in Norwegian
Môle commun in French
Möhkäkala in Finnish
Ocean Sunfish in English
Ocean Sunfish in English
Ocean sunfish in English
Ocean sunfish in English
Ocean sunfish, Sunfish in English
Orelhão in Portuguese
Peixe lua in Spanish
Peixe-lua in Portuguese
Pervane in Turkish
Pesce luna in Italian
Peste luna in Romanian
Pez luna in Spanish
Pez luna in language.
Pixxi mola in Maltese
Pixxiluna in Maltese
Pixxitambur in Maltese
Poisson lune in French
Poisson-lune in French
Poisson-lune in French
Qamar in Maltese
Rolim in Portuguese
Samoglów in Polish
Sun-fish in English
Sunfish in English
Sunfish in English
Tunglfiskur in Icelandic
ayi baligi in Turkish

Bibliographic References

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  6. 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.
  7. Kong et al. 1985, Pequeño 1989, Brito 2003, Parenti 2003, Reyes & Hüne 2012, Crespo 2018.
  8. Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
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