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Bump‐head sunfish Mola alexandrini photographed in the north‐west Pacific Ocean mesopelagic zone
Author(s) -
Sawai Etsuro,
Yamada Morihiko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/jfb.14214
Subject(s) - mesopelagic zone , oceanography , pacific ocean , fishery , biology , head (geology) , pelagic zone , geology , paleontology
We report a bump‐head sunfish Mola alexandrini (120–130 cm estimated total length) photographed from a manned submersible at a depth of 220 m off Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in May 2004. Mola alexandrini is often misidentified as the ocean sunfish Mola mola . This individual represented three records for this species: first record by a manned submersible, second record from the mesopelagic zone in the north‐west Pacific Ocean and a new distributional record from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.