Species Mola tecta Nyegaard, Sawai, Gemmell, Gillum, Loneragan, Yamanoue & Stewart, 2017

• Mola tecta Nyegaard, M., Sawai, E., Gemmel, N., Gillum, J., Loneragan, N.R., Yamanoue, Y. & Stewart, A.L. 2018. Hiding in broad daylight: molecular and morphological data reveal a new ocean sunfish species (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) that has eluded recognition. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 631-658 [644] [published online 19 July 2017].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0AE4167C-A2FE-4E77-BD45-B0D465410988

  Type data:

   Holotype NMNZ P.057679 ♂ 101.1 cm TL, North Taranaki Bight, west coast North Island, New Zealand [38°25.5′S 174°9.0′E)].
  Paratype(s) NMNZ P.001418 ♂ 60.2 cm TL, off Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand [39°25′S 177°6′E]; NMNZ P.002980 ♂ 64.6 cm TL, North Rona Bay, Eastbourne, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand [41°16′S 174°55′E]; NMNZ P.005890 ♀ 49.9 cm TL, off Great Barrier Island, New Zealand [36°5′S 175°35′E]; NMNZ P.006126 ♀ 64.8 cm TL, Oriental Bay, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand [41°17.40′S 174°47.587′E]; NMNZ P.033995 ♂ 57.2 cm TL, Bay of Plenty, Opotiki Beach, New Zealand [37°45′S 177°20′E]; NMNZ P.034187 ♂ 79.7 cm TL, Bay of Plenty, surf at Opotiki, New Zealand [37°45′S 177°20′E]; NMNZ P.034217 ♂ 69.8 cm TL, Bay of Plenty, Opotiki Beach, New Zealand ) [37°44′S 177°20′E]; NMV A18725 90.5 cm T, Port Phillip Bay, VIC, Australia [37°52′S 144°49′E]; NMV A26565-001 78.5 cm TL, Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia [38°17.4′E 144°27.36′S]; SAMA F7542 90 cm TL, Spencer gulf, South Australia [34°47.4′S 138°28.8′E]; AIM MA29864 ♀ 51.1 cm TL, Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand [35°29.3'S 173°43.7’E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Mola group C. —
  Yoshita, Y., Yamanoue, Y., Sagara, K., Nishibori, M., Kuniyoshi, H., Umino, T., Sakai, Y., Hashimoto, H. & Gushima, K. 2009. Phylogenetic relationship of two Mola sunfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) occurring around the coast of Japan, with notes on their geographical distribution and morphological characteristics. Ichthyological Research 56(3): 232-244 [published online 25 Dec 2008]
• Mola ramsayi not of Giglioli. —
  Gauldie, R.W. 1992. ‘Plywood’ structure and mineralization in the scales of the ocean sunfishes, Mola mola and M. ramsayi. Tissue and Cell 24(263-266)
  Bass, A.L., Dewar, H., Thys, T., Streelman, J.T. & Karl, S.A. 2005. Evolutionary divergence among lineages of the ocean sunfish family, Molidae (Tetraodontiformes). Marine Biology 148: 405-414
• Orthragoriscus mola not of Linnaeus. —
  Lidth de Jeude, Th. W. van L 1890. On a large specimen of Orthragoriscus on the Dutch coast. Notes from the Leyden Museum 12: 189-195

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

South eastern Australia, confirmed from off NSW to SA, including TAS, probably circumglobal in temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere; temperate, New Zealand, South Africa

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Norfolk Island Province (21), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Oceanic province, pelagic.

 

General References

Sawai, E., Yamanoue, Y., Nyegaard, M. & Sakai, Y. 2018. Redescription of the bump‑head sunfish Mola alexandrini (Ranzani 1839), senior synonym of Mola ramsayi (Giglioli 1883), with designation of a neotype for Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758) (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae). Ichthyological Research 65: 142-160

 

Common Name References

Nyegaard, M., Sawai, E., Gemmel, N., Gillum, J., Loneragan, N.R., Yamanoue, Y. & Stewart, A.L. 2018. Hiding in broad daylight: molecular and morphological data reveal a new ocean sunfish species (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) that has eluded recognition. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 631-658 [644] (Hoodwinker Ocean Sunfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	MOLIDAE	01-Sep-2020	ADDED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (ABRS)