Mola tecta, the hoodwinker sunfish, belongs to the family Molidae and genus Mola. It is closely related to the more widely known ocean sunfish (Mola mola)...

species in this genus: Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ocean sunfish) Mola alexandrini (Giglioli, 1883) (Southern sunfish) Mola tecta Nyegaard et al., 2017...

the "bump-head sunfish" Hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta) Slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) Sharptail mola (Masturus lanceolatus) Wikimedia Commons has...

own genus Mola and family name Molidae as the type species with two other species: Mola tecta and M. alexandrini (previously known as Mola ramsayi). Extinct...

ocean sunfish. She is known for identifying the ocean sunfish species Mola tecta. Marianne Nyegaard is a PhD student pursuing Environmental Science in...

The ocean sunfish are in the genus Mola, currently composed of three species: Mola mola, Mola alexandrini, Mola tecta. Also known as the southern ocean...

lesser known southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) followed by widely distributed and better known ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and, both being members of the...

obtusirostris has specialized pectoral fins for gliding The hoodwinker sunfish Mola tecta has no caudal fin The Jurassic †Leedsichthys was a filter-feeder and the...

material hard and useful. In February 2019, a rare hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta) washed ashore on Sands Beach in the Coal Oil Point Reserve. The location...

freshwater terrapins and turtles like the Indian sawback turtle (Kachuga tecta), brahminy river turtle (Hardella thurjii), and Ganges softshell turtle...