Slender Sunfish, Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776)
WEBLike the other species of sunfishes, the species lacks a true tail, and instead has a clavus. The fish is silver coloured, often darker blue above, with blue, grey, brownish or green stripes and dots above and dark stripes from …
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Slender sunfish - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
WEBThe slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only extant member of the genus Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length …
Slender sunfish - Wikipedia
The slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only extant member of the genus Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1 m (3.3 ft). Several stranding and mass stranding events have occurred on beaches near Albany, Western Australia.
The first South Australian specimen was found at Aldinga in 1944. A cast wa…Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins
Ranzania laevis, Slender sunfish - FishBase
WEBJun 7, 2011 · Slender sunfish. Add your observation in Fish Watcher. Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050. This map was computer-generated and has …
Species: Ranzania laevis, Slender sunfish, Slender mola
WEBDark grey to dark blue above, silvery on sides and belly; head and lower belly with thin undulating black-edged white bars; white spots and vertical streaks on body between dorsal and anal fins. Size: 200 cm. Habitat: …
Fishes of the Northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean: Ranzania …
WEBHabitat: epipelagic. Behaviour: often gregarious, may form large schools. Food: no data. Reproduction: two developmental stages: (I) tetraodontiform—body rather elongate, no …
Ranzania laevis - Fishes of Australia
WEBSummary: A rare small ocean sunfish with a slender oblong body, a pointed snout with a small oval funnel-like mouth, long pectoral fins, and ‘smooth’ skin covered in tiny hexagonal scales.
Ranzania laevis, Slender sunfish
WEBNative range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2100: This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Ranzania laevis AquaMaps Data sources: …
Slender Sunfish (Ranzania Laevis) - helpinghand.gi
WEBHabitat: This epipelagic species, like the only other member of the molidae family (mola mola), lives in warm and temperate seas of the world from the surface down to 50 …
The ocean sunfishes (family Molidea): Recommendations from the …
WEBSep 1, 2023 · The Molidae family consists of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), giant sunfish (Mola alexandrini), hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), sharptail sunfish (Masturus …
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