Species Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Ostracion laevis Pennant, T. 1776. British Zoology. London : Chester Vol. 3 425 pp. 73 pls. [129, pl. 19].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Cornwall, England.
• Ranzania typus Nardo, G.D. 1840. Considerazioni sulla famiglia dei pesci Mola e sui caratteri che li distinguono. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 10: 105-112 [not seen] [111].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Mediterranean Sea.
• Tetrodon truncatus Retzius, A.J. 1785. Tetrodon mola. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 6: 115-121 [121].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, no locality given.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fraser-Brunner, A. 1951. The ocean sunfishes (family Molidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series 1(6): 89-121 figs 1-18 [95]

 

Generic Combinations

• Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1933. Sunfishes. Victorian Naturalist 49: 207-213 [211]
• Triurus laevis (Pennant, 1776). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1937. Further ichthyological miscellanea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 11(2): 113-148 figs 11-13 [147]
• Ranzania truncatus (Retzius, 1785). —
  McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [436]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Lizard Island area, QLD, (14°36'S) to off North West Cape, WA; tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Oceanic province, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Rarely found inshore.

 

General References

Ayling, A.L. 1983. Growth and regeneration rates in thinly encrusting Demospongiae from temperate waters. Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole) 165: 343-352 [320]

Bray, D.J. 2008. Family Molidae. pp. 858-861 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [861]

Glover, C.J.M. 1994. Family Molidae. pp. 915-920, figs 808-810 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [919]

Hureau, J.-C. & Monod, T. (eds) 1973. Checklist of the Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). Paris : UNESCO Vol. 1 683 pp. [650]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Molidae. pp. 3966-3968 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218. [3968]

Hutchins, J.B. & Thompson, M. 1983. The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of South-western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 103 pp. 345 figs. [68, 87]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [436] (as Ranzania truncatus)

Scott, T.D., Glover, C.J.M. & Southcott, R.V. 1974. The Marine and Freshwater Fishes of South Australia. Adelaide : Government Printer 392 pp. figs. [334] (as Tiorus laevis)

Swainston, R. 2011. Swainston's Fishes of Australia: The complete illustrated guide. Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Australia 836 pp. [780]

Whitley, G.P. 1933. Studies in Ichthyology No. 7. Records of the Australian Museum 19(1): 60-112 figs 1-4 pls 11-15 [108] (synonymy and Australian records, as Ranzania laevis)

Whitley, G.P. 1933. Sunfishes. Victorian Naturalist 49: 207-213 [211] (description and figure of larvae)

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [59] (2446, as Triurus laevis)

 

Common Name References

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [920] (Slender Sunfish, Oblong Sunfish, Trunkfish)

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Molidae. pp. 3966-3968 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218. [3968] (FAO) (Slender Mola)

Pollard, J. (ed.) 1980. G.P. Whitley's Handbook of Australian Fishes. North Sydney : Jack Pollard Publishing Pty Ltd 629 pp. [325] (Ranzania, Short Sunfish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Slender Sunfish)

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [65] (Slender Sunfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Sep-2020	MOLIDAE	03-Sep-2020	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (ABRS)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)