Bump‐head sunfish  Mola alexandrini  photographed in the north‐west Pacific Ocean mesopelagic zone | Zendy

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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.

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