| NOUN | animal | ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish | among the largest bony fish |
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| Meaning | Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide / worldwide in warm waters. | |
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| Synonyms | sunfish, mola, headfish | |
| Member of | genus Mola | type genus of the Molidae |
| Narrower | sharptail mola, Mola lanceolata | caudal fin has a central projection |
| Broader | plectognath, plectognath fish | Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines |
| Spanish | mola, pez luna | |
| Catalan | bot, Mola mola, mola | |
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