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Mola
Mola is the type genus of the family Molidae, including marine fish commonly known as ocean sunfish. Mola includes three of the five species within Molidae, as well as one extinct species. Species within Mola are differentiated from the other species within Molidae by their larger size in comparison to the other two members of the family. In Latin, the name "Mola" means "millstone", referencing the round, flat shape of ocean sunfish. This genus includes the heaviest of all living bony fishes, Mola alexandrini.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
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Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 2 (Hortus Indicus Malabaricus)
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.65
Sacred Physics
Scheuchzer, Johan Jacob · 1728 · p.320
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.910
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1191
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1249
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.527
Musaeum metallicum
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1648 · p.839
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 2 (Hortus Indicus Malabaricus)
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.77
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.188
In the stacks
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Every page naming Mola in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49604.