Animal Unique | Mola Mola | Mola Mola or Ocean Sunfish found in most of the tropical and temperate waters of the world. They are usually found along the coastal areas where the wrasse and gulls can free them of parasites. The species is native to tropical and temperate waters worldwide. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and the main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as great as they are long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended. Mola Mola wave anal and dorsal fins in unison from left to right to move, rotate them slightly as they wave. The pectoral fins continuous wave, but are probably as stabilizers. The tail is used as a rudder. To steer, the Mola Mola will spray a powerful jet of water from his mouth or gills. They are lazy swimmers, sometimes let the current carry them. Occasionally, the current carry them in cold water, where they die. When needed, they can dart through the water.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Molidae
Genus: Mola
Species: M. mola
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Molidae
Genus: Mola
Species: M. mola
The caudal fin of the Mola Mola is replaced by a clavus rounded, allowing the body different truncated forms. The pectoral fins are small, fan-shaped, while the dorsal and anal fins are extended, so the fish is often as great as it is long this structure is formed by the convergence of dorsal and anal fins. The smooth-denticled clavus retains twelve rays, and ends in a rounded number of ossicles. Without a real tail to provide thrust for forward movement and equipped with only small pectoral fins, Mola Mola relies on his long, thin dorsal and anal fins for propulsion, driving itself forward by moving these fins from side to side.
Mola Mola often swim to the surface, and their high dorsal fins are sometimes confused with that of sharks. Sharks, like most fish swim by moving the tail sideways while the dorsal fin is stopped. The Mola Mola, on the other hand, dorsal and anal fins are swings in a characteristic wiggle movement that can be used to identify it. Adult Mola Mola ranging from brown to silver-gray or white, with a variety of mottled skin patterns, some of these region-specific patterns. Color is often darker at the back, fading to a lighter shade ventral as a form of counter-shading camouflage.
Mola Mola also shows the possibility of skin color varies from light to dark, especially when under attack. More than 40 species of parasites on the skin and internally, to motivate the fish to seek help in a number waysIn the tropics, the mola elicits the help of reef fish cleaning. By tan on its side on the surface, the Mola Mola also allows birds to feed on parasites from the skin. The diet consists mainly of Mola Mola of various jellyfish. It also uses nitric, squid, crustaceans, small fish, fish larvae, and eel grass. The food is bad food, so the sunfish to a large amount of food consumed to maintain its size. The Mola Mola can pull in and spitting out water through its mouth to tear small soft-bodied prey. The teeth are fused into a beak-like structure, making it harder to break organisms, and pharynx in the throat teeth grinding food into smaller pieces before moving on to the stomach.
Mola Mola have few enemies. They are attacked by great white sharks, killer whales and sea lions. Sea lions will fiercely attack them, throw them in the air like a Frisbee. Man is another enemy. Hunting mainly Mola Mola for sport, but this can be difficult if the skin is as hard a Manchester gun even bother to penetrate it. They are eaten in Europe and Japan and their liver oil is of some importance, but they have never been commercially hunted. Their tough skin is covered with parasites. Gulls, wrasse, fish and other rid them of external parasites.
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