Mola tecta Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue, & Stewart, 2018

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 227

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609983
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF73-FF57-98EA-FF2CFB7331A8
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Mola tecta Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue, & Stewart, 2018
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Treatment

Mola tecta Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue, & Stewart, 2018 View in CoL .

Hoodwinker Ocean Sunfish. To at least 242 cm (95.3 in) TL ( Nyegaard et al. 2018). Southern Hemisphere from Chile to Australia to South Africa, and one possible record from the North Sea ( Nyegaard et al. 2018); at least as far north as Kodiak Island, Alaska (Marianne Nyegaard, pers. comm.) to Coal Oil Point, Santa Barbara County, southern California (M.L., pers. obs.). Depth range unknown, but may resemble that of Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Nyegaard et al. 2018) .