FB-1751 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1751 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Carangiformes Echeneidae Remora Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) Tuloglów Peixe lua Peixe-lua Peixe-lua-comprido Peixe-roda Rompvis Peshk lepur Peshku lepur Pysgodyn haul main Aflang klumpfisk Lang klumpfisk Kleiner Mondfisch Schlanker Sonnenfisch Dwarf sunfish Elongate sunfish Oblong sunfish Slender Mola Slender mola Slender sunfish Tsunami fish Truncated sunfish Trunkfish Ransaania Poisson Poisson-lune tronqué Ranzania 'Apahu Makua Bucanj mali Mola 'mperiali Pesce luna troncato Kusabifugu Mola Pixxiluna Pixxitambur Qamar tawwali ранцания Makrillkung Mindre klumpfisk Uzun pervane balığı Uzunpervane balığı Mola flaca Pez luna colitruncado Ranzania Bot allargat Fegaropsaro kolovo Lopar Φεγγαρόψαρο κολοβό 斑点长翻车鲀 斑點長翻車魨 曼波(成功) 海虫(澎湖) 蜇鱼 蜇鲂 長翻車魨 长翻车鲀 Cephalus cocherani Traill, 1832 Cephalus elongatus Risso, 1827 Cephalus oblongus Shaw, 1804 Cephalus varius Shaw, 1804 Diodon dimidiatus Walbaum, 1792 Mola planci Nardo, 1827 Orthragoriscus battarae Ranzani, 1839 Orthragoriscus oblongus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Orthragoriscus solaris Gronow, 1854 Orthragoriscus truncatus (Retzius, 1785) Orthragus oblongus Rafinesque, 1810 Ostracion boops Richardson, 1845 Ostracion laevis Pennant, 1776 Ranzania makua Jenkins, 1895 Ranzania truncata (Retzius, 1785) Ranzania typus Nardo, 1840 Tetraodon truncatus Retzius, 1785 Tetrodon truncatus Retzius, 1785 1990-10-24 2024-08-12 ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)0 Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. 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Original author and source must be properly acknowledged http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ralae_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Ralae_u0.gif FB-pic-1750-12010 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 1996-09-27 1997-04-13 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ralae_u1.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Ralae_u1.gif FB-pic-1750-38261 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg Lisa Sibi 2003-11-13 2010-07-28 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Image can be freely copied and altered, as long as original author and source are properly acknowledged. WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats weight: 1.5 kg. Fish found on surface water. http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ralae_u1.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ralae_u1.jpg FB-GeneralDescr-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Christine Papasissi 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Oceanic (Ref. 2850), epipelagic (Ref. 2340), and generally solitary (Ref. 9317). Feeds on planktonic crustaceans (Ref. 4424). Tortonese, E. 1990 Molidae. p. 1077-1079. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 6952) FB-DiagnosticDescr-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1997-03-04 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Caudal fin present in postlarvae but resorbed during metamorphosis and replaced by a clavus (Ref. 4424). Body elongated, Mouth slit vertical (Ref. 35388). Heemstra, P.C. 1986 Molidae. p. 907-908. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 4424) FB-Morphology-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1997-03-04 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 18; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 20 Heemstra, P.C. 1986 Molidae. p. 907-908. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 4424) FB-Distribution-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2025-02-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Cosmopolitan. Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Martinique, Venezuela (Ref. 51183), and Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Madeira to Scandinavia (Ref. 4711); Dakar, Senegambie, and Sierra Leone (Ref. 6952); South Africa. Eastern Pacific: central California, USA to Chile; rare north of Mexico (Ref. 2850). Indian Ocean: Madagascar (Ref. 33390), Mauritius (Ref. 58078), Reunion (Ref. 53568), Iran (Ref. 86583), Australia (49596). West Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559), China (Ref. 57879), Taiwan (Ref. 12711), New Zealand (Ref. 5755). Tortonese, E. 1986 Molidae. p. 1348-1350. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 3. (Ref. 4711) FB-Uses-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Christine Papasissi 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats fisheries: bycatch FB-TrophicStrategy-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 2000-06-20 00:00:00 2008-01-03 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public laevis http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Oceanic (Ref. 2850), epipelagic (Ref. 2340), and generally solitary (Ref. 9317). Feeds on planktonic crustaceans (Ref. 4424). Grove, J.S. and R.J. Lavenberg 1997 The fishes of the Galápagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 863 p. (Ref. 28023) FB-Size-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Christine Papasissi 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution 100.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 26340)) Claro, R. 1994 Características generales de la ictiofauna. p. 55-70. In R. Claro (ed.) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba. Instituto de Oceanología Academia de Ciencias de Cuba and Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo. (Ref. 26340) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-1750 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Crispina B. Binohlan 1990-10-24 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1750 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size pelagic-oceanic; marine; depth range 1 - 140 m (Ref. 58302) Mundy, B.C. 2005 Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. (6):1-704. (Ref. 58302)