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title: "Peixe-lua"
description: "Mola mola — Peixes. The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest ray-finned fish in the world."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/common-mola
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Peixe-lua

> Mola mola — Peixes. The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest ray-finned fish in the world.

- Scientific name: *Mola mola*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 4469
- Wikidata: [Q192285](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192285)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49601](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49601)

## Names

- en: Common Mola
- de: Mondfisch
- es: Mola
- fr: Poisson-lune
- nl: Maanvis
- pt: Peixe-lua
- pl: Samogłów

## Countries with the most observations

US (1673), CA (194), ZA (90), ES (81), FR (61), PT (37), IT (36), GB (29), NA (15), MX (12), AU (11), CL (9)

## Summary

The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest ray-finned fish in the world. It is the type species of the genus Mola, and one of five extant species in the family Molidae. It was formerly misidentified as the heaviest bony fish, which is actually a different and closely related species of sunfish, Mola alexandrini. Adults typically weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg (545 and 2,205 lb). It is native to tropical and temperate waters around the world. It resembles a fish head without a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as tall as they are long, between 175…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish

## Photo

![Peixe-lua](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-mola/medium.jpg)

Photo: flamelily · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197067759

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-mola?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).