Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Molidae
- genus
- Mola
- species
- Mola mola
Name
- Synonyms
- Aledon capensis Castelnau, 1861
- Aledon storeri Castelnau, 1861
- Cephalus brevis Shaw, 1804
- Cephalus ortagoriscus Risso, 1827
- Cephalus pallasianus Shaw, 1804
- Diodon carinatus Mitchill, 1828
- Diodon mola Pallas, 1770
- Diodon nummularis Walbaum, 1792
- Diplanchias nasus Rafinesque, 1810
- Mola aculeata Koelreuter, 1766
- Mola alexandrini (Ranzani, 1839)
- Mola aspera Nardo, 1827
- Mola hispida Nardo, 1827
- Mola rotunda Cuvier, 1797
- Molacanthus pallasii Swainson, 1839
- Orthagoriscus alessandrini Ranzani, 1839
- Orthagoriscus analis Ayres, 1859
- Orthagoriscus mola
- Orthragoriscus alexandrini Ranzani, 1839
- Orthragoriscus analis Ayres, 1859
- Homonyms
- Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common names
- Almindelig klumpfisk in Danish
- Almindelig klumpfisk in Danish
- Bucanj in Serbian
- Common sunfish in English
- Common sunfish in English
- Giant Sunfish in English
- Giant sunfish in English
- Giant sunfish in English
- Headfish in English
- Headfish in English
- Iasc Gréine in Irish
- Ikan Raksasa in Indonesian
- Klumpfisk in Swedish
- Klumpfisk in Danish
- Klumpfisk in Danish
- Lua in Portuguese
- Maanvis in Dutch
- Mambo in Romanian
- Mola in Maltese
- Mola in Spanish
- Mola Ocean Sunfish in English
- Mola Ocean Sunfish in English
- Mondfisch in German
- Mondfisch in German
- Mondfisch in German
- Mondfisch in German
- Moonfish in English
- Moonfish in English
- Morski mesec in Slovenian
- Månefisk in Norwegian
- Môle Commun in French
- Môle commun in French
- Möhkäkala in Finnish
- Ocean Sunfish in English
- Ocean Sunfish in English
- Ocean sunfish in English
- Ocean sunfish in English
- Ocean sunfish, Sunfish in English
- Orelhão in Portuguese
- Peixe Lua in Portuguese
- Peixe lua in Spanish
- Peixe-lua in Portuguese
- Pervane in Turkish
- Pesce luna in Italian
- Peste luna in Romanian
- Pez Cabeza in Spanish
- Pez Sol in Spanish
- Pez luna in Spanish
- Pez luna in language.
- Pixxi mola in Maltese
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