Sunfish (NHMW-ZOO-FS-95124)

3D Model

3D scan of the sunfish Mola mola. Sunfish (Molidae) stand out due to their unique appearance. They can grow up to 3 meters in height, but become hardly ever longer than high and are disc shaped. Until now, not much is known about these unique fishes. What is known is, that they live in tropical and temperate oceans and that M. mola produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate: up to 300,000,000 at a time.

Have a look at the 3D scan of a M. mola skeleton.

This sunfish stands next to another sunfish, which is Number 65 of the NHM Top 100 and can be found in Hall 26 of the NHM Vienna.

Specimen: Sunfish, Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Inventory Number: NHMW-ZOO-FS-95124

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, 1st Zoological Dept., Fish Coll. (curator: Ernst Mikschi)

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Scanned and edited by Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.