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681
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The ocean sunfish is one of the earth's largest and strangest creatures, and surely the only fish that sunbathes.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 56 Issue 7, July 1992,
p24-27, il
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28202
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Cosmopolitan occurring ocean sunfishes or molas, Mola mola and Mola lanceolata (family Molidae), have been documented in North Carolina waters by a number of marine scientists. Frank Schwartz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences updated information on both molas in relation to seasonal occurrences in ocean and estuarine waters, food, age, and additional fish associations.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 119 Issue 2, Summer 2003,
p57-60, bibl
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30062
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This study examined the distribution of ocean sunfish (Mola mola). More than sixty encounters with the ocean sunfish in North Carolina’s offshore waters reveal that this fish is an epipelagic migrant, occurring in shallow water commonly in the spring.
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