Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Tetraodontiformes > Family Molidae

Mola Koelreuter, 1766

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Orthagoriscus Cuvier, 1816 synonym
Orthragoriscus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 synonym

Children

Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: マンボウ属

Literature

original description

Koelreuter, J.G. (1763). Piscium rariorum e Museo Petropolitano exceptorum descriptiones. Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petropol. 8:337-430. 1 pl.

basis of record

van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374

additional source

Koelreuter, J.G. (1763). Piscium rariorum e Museo Petropolitano exceptorum descriptiones. Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petropol. 8:337-430. 1 pl.

taxonomy source

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.

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Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Mola Koelreuter, 1766. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126233

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2014-11-21 by Nicolas Bailly

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