Slender sunfish - Wikipedia
The slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only extant member of the genus Ranzania, [2] found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1 m (3.3 ft).
Slender sunfish - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
The slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only extant member of the genus Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1 m (3.3 ft). Several stranding and mass stranding events have occurred on …
Slender Sunfish, Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776)
One of the World’s largest fish develops from a tiny larval Mola Sunfish. World first identification of a larval Mola alexandrini by Australian and New Zealand Scientists.
Slender Mola (Ranzania laevis) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ocean Sunfish | Smithsonian
2012年6月6日 · Pockets of mola researchers around the world have found that molas are powerful swimmers that buck ocean currents—dispelling a myth that they are lethargic drifters.
Shorefishes - The Fishes - Species - Smithsonian Tropical …
Slender Mola, Slender Sunfish. Body an elongate oval (depth 25-48% of SL), strongly compressed; mouth small, funnel like, a vertical slit when closed, opens at the front, is a beak (without a central suture) composed of teeth fused to the jaws; gill openings small, on side just before pectorals; gill rakers not covered with skin; pectorals long ...
Slender Mola (Ranzania laevis) - iNaturalist
The slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only member of the genus Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1 m (3.3 ft). Several stranding and mass stranding events have been discovered on beaches near Albany, Western Australia.
Slender Sunfish - Ranzania Laevis - Marinewise
Slender Sunfish are typically silver-grey in colour with white patches on their fins and body. They have a flattened, oval-shaped body with a short snout, small mouth, and a pointed dorsal fin. They are the smallest of their species and the most agile.
Slender Sunfish, Ranzania laevis (Pennant 1776) - Fishes of …
A Slender Sunfish, Ranzania laevis, washed ashore in Namibia. Source: J Kemper / Fishbase. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial. A rare small ocean sunfish with a slender oblong body, a pointed snout with a small oval funnel-like mouth, long pectoral fins, and ‘smooth’ skin covered in tiny hexagonal scales.
Ranzania laevis, Slender sunfish - FishBase
Cosmopolitan. Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Martinique, Venezuela (Ref. 51183), and Brazil.Eastern Atlantic: Madeira to Scandinavia (Ref. 4711); Dakar, Senegambie ...