Mola mola The ocean sun Fish

Mola molaThe ocean sunfish, Mola mola, or common mola, is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of 1 tonne (2,200 lbs). The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as tall as they are long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended.
Sunfish live on a diet that consists mainly of jellyfish. Because this diet is nutritionally poor, they consume large amounts in order to develop and maintain their great bulk. Females of the species can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate.[1] Sunfish fry resemble miniature pufferfish, with large pectoral fins, a tail fin and body spines uncharacteristic of adult sunfish.
Adult sunfish are vulnerable to few natural predators, but sea lions, orcas and sharks will consume them. Among humans, sunfish are considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, including Japan, the Korean peninsula and Taiwan, but sale of their flesh is banned in the European Union.[2] Sunfish are frequently, though accidentally, caught in gillnets, and are also vulnerable to harm or death from encounters with floating trash, such as plastic bags.
A member of the order Tetraodontiformes, which also includes pufferfish, porcupinefish and filefish, the sunfish shares many traits common to members of this order. It was originally classified as Tetraodon mola under the pufferfish genus, but it has since been given its own genus, Mola, with two species under it. The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, is the type species of the genus.Many of the sunfish's various names allude to its unique flattened shape. Its specific name, mola, is Latin for "millstone", which the fish resembles because of its grey colour, rough texture, and rounded body. Its common English name, sunfish, refers to the animal's habit of sunbathing at the surface of the water. The Portuguese-, French-, Spanish-, Russian- and German-language names, respectively peixe lua, poisson lune, pez luna, рыба-луна and Mondfisch, mean "moon fish", in reference to its rounded shape. In German, the fish is also known as Schwimmender Kopf, or "swimming head," In Polish it is named samogłów meaning "head alone" because it has no true tail. The Chinese translation of its academic name is fan-che pufferfish, meaning "toppled car" pufferfish. In 2002, after Taiwan's Hualien County decided to promote the fish officially, a general public vote was held, in which the name "mambo fish" was selected. The ocean sunfish has various obsolete binomial synonyms, and was originally classified in the pufferfish genus, as Tetraodon mola.[3][4] It is now placed in its own genus, Mola, with two species: Mola mola and Mola ramsayi. The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, is the type species of the genus.[5]
The Mola genus belongs to the Molidae family. This family comprise 3 genera: Masturus, Mola and Ranzania. The common name "sunfish" without qualifier is used to describe the Molidae marine family as well as the freshwater sunfishes in the family Centrarchidae which are unrelated to Molidae. On the other hand, the name "ocean sunfish" and "mola" refer only to the family Molidae.[1]
The Molidae family belongs to the order Tetraodontiformes, which includes pufferfish, porcupinefish and filefish. It shares many traits common to members of this order, including the four fused teeth that form the characteristic beak and give the order its name (tetra=four, odous=tooth, and forma=shape). Indeed, sunfish larvae resemble spiky pufferfish more than they resemble adult molas.[6]

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[deamonsead]

@Kimmiko

Who's that pokémon??

It's Alomomola!!

[HHamanyy]

it`s look like half Fish

[XtremeFunniness]

what a spectacular fish, i love the ocean so much

[OmegaRadiost]

Its Kine the Sunfish.

[Tu0mo]

Nature had fun creating this guy..

[sjgapf]

how did i end up watchin this vid?

[mikeluna79]

it was the wierdist fish iv ever seen



[mikeluna79]

i recently went there its a sealife acuraim in monterey

[picklejarzz]

sexy...

[NBAISAWESOMEEEEEEE]

That fish has BIG EYES

[muskie1976]

no they're not going extinct. i recently ate a beautifully prepared ocean sunfish fillet with oyster sauce at a japanese restaurant.

as an appetizer i had fried mola mola bits with plum sauce. excellent eating.