The
slender sunfish,
Ranzania laevis, is a
molaMola can refer to:*Mola, a minor troubadour*Emilio Mola, a Spanish army officer of the Spanish Civil War*Mola di Bari, a city in Apulia, Southern Italy* Mola, a genus of fishes in the family Molidae....
of the
familyIn biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus...
MolidaeMolidae is the family of the molas or ocean sunfishes, unique fish whose bodies come to an end just behind the dorsal and anal fins, giving them a "half-a-fish" appearance...
, the only member of the
genusIn biology, a genus is a taxonomic unit used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The term comes from Latin genus "descent, family, type, gender" , cognate with – genos, "race, stock, kin" ..In addition, genus is a taxonomic rank in the hierarchy In biology, a genus (plural:...
Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1
mThe metre or meter is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units . Historically, the metre was defined by the French Academy of Sciences as the length between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar, which was designed to represent one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator...
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The
slender sunfish,
Ranzania laevis, is a
molaMola can refer to:*Mola, a minor troubadour*Emilio Mola, a Spanish army officer of the Spanish Civil War*Mola di Bari, a city in Apulia, Southern Italy* Mola, a genus of fishes in the family Molidae....
of the
familyIn biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus...
MolidaeMolidae is the family of the molas or ocean sunfishes, unique fish whose bodies come to an end just behind the dorsal and anal fins, giving them a "half-a-fish" appearance...
, the only member of the
genusIn biology, a genus is a taxonomic unit used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The term comes from Latin genus "descent, family, type, gender" , cognate with – genos, "race, stock, kin" ..In addition, genus is a taxonomic rank in the hierarchy In biology, a genus (plural:...
Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1
mThe metre or meter is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units . Historically, the metre was defined by the French Academy of Sciences as the length between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar, which was designed to represent one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator...
.