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Molidae
slender mola
Ranzania laevis
Molid Fish from Taiwanese Waters
- Tropical
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- West Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Deep-bodied
Largeslender mola is known around Cosmopolitan as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the largest recorded length is 100 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Molidae
- Genus
- Ranzania
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan. Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Martinique, Venezuela (Ref. 51183 ), and Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Madeira to Scandinavia (Ref. 4711 ); Dakar, Senegambie, and Sierra Leone (Ref. 6952 ); South Africa. Eastern Pacific: central California, USA to Chile; rare north of Mexico (Ref. 2850 ). Indian Ocean: Madagascar (Ref. 33390 ), Mauritius (Ref. 58078 ), Reunion (Ref. 53568 ), Iran (Ref. 86583 ), Australia (49596). West Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559 ), China (Ref. 57879 ), Taiwan (Ref. 12711 ), New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
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