Mola (genus)

Mola (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Mola"
fossil_range = Late Miocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-08
]



image_width = 250px
image_caption = Ocean sunfish, "Mola mola"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Tetraodontiformes
familia = Molidae
genus = "Mola"
genus_authority = Koelreuter, 1766
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Mola mola" (Linnaeus, 1758)
"Mola ramsayi" (Giglioli, 1883)

"Mola" is a genus of the family Molidae. It includes two species, the ocean sunfish, "Mola mola", and the southern sunfish, "Mola ramsayi".

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