Ocean sunfish

Scientific name : Mola mola

Mola mola is the bigger and the most common of the sunfishes; it can reach a maximum length of three meters and thirty centimetres.
The body is particularly round shaped, and the ribbon-like pseudo-caudal fin is placed between the very long triangular dorsal and anal fins. The skin is very thick, grey in colour with some scattered white patterns. The eyes are big, the mouth is small, with teeth fused in a parrot-like beak.

It lives in open water of the whole World. It swims lazily close to the surface, sometimes lying on one side. It feeds on pelagic and benthic invertebrates.