Mola mola Giant Sunfish, Headfish, Mola Ocean Sunfish, Moonfish, Ocean Sunfish, Sunfish, Sun-fish

Mola mola is commonly referred to as Giant Sunfish, Headfish, Mola Ocean Sunfish, Moonfish, Ocean Sunfish, Sunfish, Sun-fish. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. Toxicity: toxic.

Profile

lexID:

3256 

AphiaID:

127405 

Scientific:

Mola mola 

German:

Mondfisch 

English:

Giant Sunfish, Headfish, Mola Ocean Sunfish, Moonfish, Ocean Sunfish, Sunfish, Sun-fish 

Category:

Pesci palla 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Molidae (Family) > Mola (Genus) > mola (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Linnaeus, ), 1758 

Occurrence:

Djibouti, Tunesien, Benin, El Salvador, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Eritrea, Sudan, Ghana, Barbados, Russland, Straße von Gibraltar, Gambia, West Sahara, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the Black Sea, (the) Maldives, Alaska , Algeria, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Arabian Sea, Argentina, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Australia, Azores, Bakers Island, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada Eastern Pacific, Central Atlantic, Central Pazific, Chile, China, Christmas Islands, Circumglobal, Clipperton Island, Columbia, Comores, Congo, Cook Islands, Corea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Eastern Pacific Ocean, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, European Coasts, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland Island, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Line Islands, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific (Ocean), Northeast Pacific Ocean, Northern Mariana Islands, Oceanodromous, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Peru, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Red Sea, Réunion , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé e Principé, Saudi Arabia, Scandinavia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Atlantic, South-Africa, South-Pazific, Southeast Atlantic, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Faroe Islands, The Gulf of Guinea, the Ivory Coast, the Mediterranean Sea, the Netherlands Antilles, the Seychelles, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna, West-Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen 

Sea depth:

30 - 800 Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water, Water column 

Size:

up to 157.48" (400 cm) 

Weight:

2.3 Tonnen 

Temperature:

5,3 °F - 20,5 °F (5,3°C - 20,5°C) 

Food:

Carnivore, Crabs, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Jellyfish, Sea urchins, Starfishs, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

toxic 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Vulnerable (VU) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Mola mola
  Mondfisch

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Mola alexandrini
  Mondfisch
• 
  Mola sp.
  Mondfisch
• 
  Mola tecta
  Mondfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2010-07-08 19:02:11 

Last edit:

2025-09-12 11:00:46 

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