Ocean sunfish
Mola mola
VulnerableFishcarnivore
The sunfish is a giant, oddly shaped fish that looks like a floating head with fins. It lives in warm and mild oceans worldwide. Its body is flat and wide, sometimes reaching the same height as length when its fins stretch out.
- Adults weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg.
- Its body is flattened side to side, like a pancake.
- Once mistaken for the heaviest bony fish, but a close cousin holds that title.
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- Classification
- Fish
- Scientific name
- Mola mola
- Habitat
- Ocean
- Regions in this directory
- Worldwide
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- giant
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable (VU)