Bump-head sunfish Mola alexandrini photographed in the north-west Pacific Ocean mesopelagic zone.

作者: Etsuro Sawai , Morihiko Yamada

DOI: 10.1111/JFB.14214

关键词: OceanographyNorth westPacific oceanOcean sunfishMesopelagic zoneMolaHead (watercraft)Biology

摘要: We report a bump-head sunfish Mola alexandrini (120-130 cm estimated total length) photographed from manned submersible at depth of 220 m off Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in May 2004. is often misidentified as the ocean mola. This individual represented three records for this species: first record by submersible, second mesopelagic zone north-west Pacific Ocean and new distributional Japan.

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