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Mola tecta Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue, & Stewart 2018
Description
Mola tecta Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue, & Stewart, 2018.
Hoodwinker Ocean Sunfish. To at least 242 cm (95.3 in) TL (Nyegaard et al. 2018). Southern Hemisphere from Chile to Australia to South Africa, and one possible record from the North Sea (Nyegaard et al. 2018); at least as far north as Kodiak Island, Alaska (Marianne Nyegaard, pers. comm.) to Coal Oil Point, Santa Barbara County, southern California (M.L., pers. obs.). Depth range unknown, but may resemble that of Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) (Nyegaard et al. 2018).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Molidae
- Genus
- Mola
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue, & Stewart
- Species
- tecta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mola tecta Nyegaard, 2018 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nyegaard, M., Sawai, E., Gemmell, Gillum, J., Loneragan, N. R., Yamanoue, Y. & Stewart, A. L. (2018) Hiding in broad daylight: molecular and morphological data reveal a new ocean sunfish species (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) that has eluded recognition. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 182, 631 - 658. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlx 040