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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	37 470001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Mola alexandrini   (Ranzani, 1839)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: K. Graham, NSW Fisheries Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: K. Graham, NSW Fisheries Family: 37 470 Molidae (Ocean Sunfishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Short Sunfish Organism Type: an ocean sunfish Synonyms: Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883) [in most references prior to 2018; see Sawai et al 2018 for further details] Mola mola [misidentifications - Waite, 1921: 198; Waite, 1923: 230-231] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m) Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic) Parent Codes: 37 470902     Mola spp. Previous Codes (if any): 470001

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2012-07-24. Occurrence locations [3] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 5000 m.

Taxon Notes:	Name updated from Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883) after Sawai et al 2018 rediscovered the dried holotype of Mola alexandrini and demonstrated it was the senior synonym of Mola ramsayi.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a6344895-0a66-4706-9252-e85caddd3c46 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 784 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1329867 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2023-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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