Etsuro Sawai, Marianne Nyegaard,
... been considered the ocean sunfish Mola mola (family Molidae). However, recent taxonomic research suggests the world record ... 2000 kg in body mass, i.e ., other Molidae species and the beluga sturgeon Huso huso . Overall, ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2022 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
... genera, Diodontidae 18 species in seven genera, and Molidae five species in three genera. Phylogenetic relationships of ... with the phylogenetic positions of the Triodontidae and Molidae due to conflicts of differing positions in morphological and molecular studies (e.g., Molidae has been placed differently among molecular studies).
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Ichthyological Research
Francesco Santini, James C. Tyler,
... the pelagic tetraodontiform ocean sunfishes of the family Molidae is proposed. Strong support is evidenced for the ... sister group of Ranzania. The monophyly of the Molidae also is strongly supported, not just by characters ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2002 - Taylor & Francis | Italian Journal of Zoology
Martin C. Arostegui, Camrin D. Braun, PA Woodworth-Jefcoats, Donald R. Kobayashi, Peter Gaube,
Ocean sunfishes or molas (Molidae) are difficult to study as a result of their extensive movements and low densities in remote waters. In particular, little ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2020 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Marianne Nyegaard, Etsuro Sawai, Neil J. Gemmell, Joanne Gillum, Neil R. Loneragan, Yusuke Yamanoue, Andrew L. Stewart,
The taxonomy of the ocean sunfishes (Molidae) has a complicated history. Currently, three genera and four species are recognized, including two in the genus Mola (M. mola and M. ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2017 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Natasha D. Phillips, Chris Harrod, Andrew R. Gates, Tierney M. Thys, Jonathan D. R. Houghton,
... suggests deep‐water ranging in ocean sunfishes (family Molidae) is more common than typically thought, including a ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
2015 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
Laith A. Jawad, Sadek A. Hussein, F. Bulbil,
... 1118 Short communication Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) (Tetraodontiformes, Molidae): a rare fish in marine waters of Iraq ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2010 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ichthyology
... structures) and accessory lateral lines and neuromasts (except Molidae in which “accessory” elements were absent). The preopercular ... being absent in Aracanidae, Ostraciidae, Tetraodontidae, Diodontidae, and Molidae. Morphological characteristics derived from the lateral line system ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2009 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
Gregory L. Fulling, Dagmar Fertl, Kevin Bracy Knight, Wayne Hoggard,
... sighting, stranding and bycatch data for the Family Molidae (molas) in the northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2007 - University of Southern Mississippi | Gulf and Caribbean Research
... Volume 3: Bony fishes part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), sea turtles and marine mammals. FAO Species Identification ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
2005 - Wiley | Fish and Fisheries
... most conspicuous characters of the ocean sunfishes, family Molidae, is the punctuation of the body by a ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2004 - Wiley | Journal of Morphology
James C. Tyler, Alexandre F. Bannikov,
... Kumsky Horizon, North Caucasus) are referred to the Molidae because of their uniquely derived features of highly ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
1992 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
Lea Hellenbrecht, Marko Freese, J-D POHLMANN, Håkan Westerberg, Tina Blancke, Reinhold Hanel,
Abstract Sunfishes or Molidae are a rarely encountered family within the teleost order Tetraodontiformes and most details of their reproductive biology including times ... are rather unclear. Spawning of two species of Molidae was suggested in the Sargasso Sea before, yet ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2019 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Plankton Research
Natasha D. Phillips, Marianne Nyegaard, Etsuro Sawai, Ching‐Tsun Chang, Miguel Baptista, Tierney M. Thys,
The ocean sunfishes (family Molidae) include the largest and heaviest bony fishes in the world and species within the family are distributed from southern Chile to the Arctic Circle. The Molidae currently contains five species within three genera: Mola ... these fishes on a global scale, the IUCN Molidae review panel was formed to update these listings. ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2023 - Elsevier BV | Marine Policy
Marianne Nyegaard, Etsuro Sawai,
... of sunfish specimens (Genera Mola and Masturus, Family Molidae, >29 cm total length) from natural history museum ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2018 - Elsevier BV | Data in Brief
Jeffrey C. Mangel, Mariela Pajuelo, Andrea Pásara-Polack, German Vela, Eduardo Segura‐Cobeña, Joanna Alfaro‐Shigueto,
Reports were compiled of sunfish (family Molidae) by‐catch in Peruvian small‐scale fisheries and sunfish by‐catch rates were estimated using data from shore‐based and onboard monitoring ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2018 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
Marianne Nyegaard, Camrin D. Braun, Marthen Welly, Rili Djohani, Martin C. Arostegui,
The ocean sunfishes Mola spp. (Family Molidae) are charismatic marine megafauna that are difficult for nature-based tourism operators to target due to their sporadic occurrence. However, the giant ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2023 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Miguel Baptista, Ana Catarina Braga, Rui Rosa, Pedro Reis Costa,
... This restriction applies to fish of the family Molidae even though no data on toxins' occurrence is ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Marine Drugs
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
1977 - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science | Bulletin of Marine Science
Marianne Nyegaard, Ingrid N. Visser, London A. Fletcher,
Ocean sunfish (Mola spp.) are well known for their large adult size and peculiar morphology, which in combination give them the resemblance of a giant, swimming fish head.At first glance, this unusual body form hints at locomotive ineptitude, and traditionally molids have indeed been considered poor swimmers.Although this archaic view has been thoroughly rebutted in recent years, with studies revealing molids are strong swimmers (for example their ability to rapidly accelerate, with recorded burst ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2023 - Edizioni Danaus, Palermo | BIODIVERSITY JOURNAL
Marianne Nyegaard, Samantha Andrzejaczek, Curt S. Jenner, Micheline‐Nicole M. Jenner,
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Environmental Biology of Fishes
Marianne Nyegaard, Neil R. Loneragan, S. A. Hall, James Andrew, Etsuro Sawai, Mette Nyegaard,
... identification errors had previously obscured a more complex Molidae zoogeography in the area, highlighting that phylogenetic analyses ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2018 - Elsevier BV | Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
Yu. V. Dyldin, А. М. Орлов, А. Ya. Velikanov, S. S. Makeev, В. И. Романов, Lubomír Hanel,
Tópico(s): Marine and environmental studies
2018 - Pleiades Publishing | Journal of Ichthyology
Etsuro Sawai, Yusuke Yamanoue, Laith A. Jawad, Juma M. Al-Mamry, Yoichi Sakai,
We employed molecular systematic analysis based on mitochondrial D-loop sequences to identify two specimens of ocean sunfish from Omani coastal waters that had previously been identified morphologically as Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) and M. ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883). Of the three molecular species that are recognized globally, Mola sp. A, Mola sp. B, and Mola sp. C, we confirmed that both specimens from Oman are Mola sp. A. This result suggested a broader distribution of this species than had ever been ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2017 - The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology | Species Diversity
Marianne Nyegaard, Neil R. Loneragan, M.B. Santos,
In addition to crustaceans, remains from 17 individual squid were found in the stomach of a 58 cm slender sunfish Ranzania laevis from Australia, adding a new prey item to their little studied diet. Taken together with existing data from the literature, crustaceans appear to be a common prey item, with larger R. laevis (26–65 cm) also taking small fish and squid. Along with new documentation on breaching, the unexpected finding of squid in the stomach confirms that these fish are fast and agile predators.
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2017 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
Etsuro Sawai, Yusuke Yamanoue, Marianne Nyegaard, Yoichi Sakai,
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | Ichthyological Research
Tierney M. Thys, Alex Hearn, Kevin C. Weng, John P. Ryan, César Peñaherrera‐Palma,
... 1112 m (the deepest depth yet recorded for Molidae) into temperatures ranging between 4.5°C and ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2017 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Journal of Marine Biology
Ítalo Fernández, Ciro Oyarzún, Ariel Valenzuela, Carolina Burgos, Víctor Guaquín, Víctor Manuel Xolalpa Campos,
Este estudio reporta los parásitos presentes en un ejemplar de Mola mola, encontrado en la costa de Tomé, Chile, durante el mes de octubre de 2014. Se aislaron estados adultos de los digeneos Accacladium serpentulum y Accacladocoelium macrocotyle, del cestodo Anchistrocephalus microcephalus y del copépodo Cecrops latreillii. Además, se identificaron larvas de tercer estado del nematodo Anisakis sp. Tipo I, sensu Berland, 1961 (tercer estadio, L3) y plerocerci del cestodo Molicola horridus. Los ...
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
2016 - University of Concepción | Gayana
Zack S. Oyafuso, Robert J. Toonen, Erik C. Franklin,
... were dominant prey taxa from the offshore fishery. Molidae was a common prey family found in stomachs ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2016 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
Micah D. Bakenhaster, JS Knight-Gray,
Reports on the gut contents of ocean sunfish, Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758), are rare, and those for sharptail mola, Masturus lanceolatus (Lienard, 1840), are almost nonexistent. Here, we report new diet data obtained during opportune sampling of a small number of stranded specimens of both species, and discuss our data in the context of hypotheses on feeding behavior of M. mola. One specimen of only two M. mola had a gut full primarily of filamentous algae, and the guts of two specimens of M. lanceolatus ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2016 - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science | Bulletin of Marine Science