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Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola
Vulnerable fish
Measurements
Shoulder Height
3.3 m
10'10"
Body Length
3.0 m
9'10"
Weight
1.0 t
2,205 lbs
About Ocean Sunfish
The ocean sunfish (mola mola) is the heaviest bony fish in the world. Growing to 330cm fin-to-fin and weighing up to 1,000 kg, it has a distinctive flattened body shape.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Molidae
- Genus
- Mola
Ecology
- Diet
- carnivore
- Habitat
- ocean
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Oceania, Europe
Fun Fact
Female ocean sunfish can produce up to 300 million eggs at a time, more than any other vertebrate.