A Fish Called Mola Mola

Mola mola is the heaviest known bony fish in the world with an average adult weight of 1,000Kg.
Mola mola is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally.

Mola Mola feeds mainly of jellyfish and it consumes large amounts in order to develop and maintain their great bulk.

Mola Mola Females can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate. Their fry resemble miniature pufferfish, with large pectoral fins, a tail fin and body spines uncharacteristic of adult sunfish.

Mola mola adults are vulnerable to few natural predators, but sea lions, orcas and sharks will consume them.
Among humans, mola mola are considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, including Japan, the Korean peninsula and Taiwan. In the European Union, regulations ban the sale of fish and fishery products derived of the Molidae family.

Mola mola are frequently, though accidentally, caught in gillnets, and are also vulnerable to harm or death from encounters with floating trash, such as plastic bags.

A member of the order Tetraodontiformes, which also includes pufferfish, porcupinefish and filefish, the sunfish shares many traits common to members of this order. It was originally classified as Tetraodon mola under the pufferfish genus, but it has since been given its own genus, Mola, with two species under it.

The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, is the type species of the genus.