Mola Koelreuter [I. T.] 1766:337 Fem. Mola aculeata Koelreuter 1766. Type by monotypy. Original seen. Establishment of type species possibly dates to Fraser-Brunner 1951. •Valid as Mola Koelreuter 1766 -- (Fraser-Brunner 1951:109 [ref. 19546], Tortonese 1973:649 [ref. 7192], Tyler 1980:391 [ref. 4477], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:366 [ref. 6441], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1349 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:908 [ref. 5660], Gomon et al. 1994:917 [ref. 22532], Lindberg et al. 1997:180 [ref. 23547], Hutchins 2001:3966 [ref. 26319], Santini & Tyler 2002:38 [ref. 25998], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:852 [ref. 25968], Matsuura 2003:2015 [ref. 27119], Parenti 2003:2 [ref. 27311], Parin 2003:S36 [ref. 28536], Yamanoue et al. 2004:269 [ref. 28362], Bray & Hoese 2006:1937 [ref. 29049], Bray 2008:859 [ref. 30620], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:76 [ref. 36649], Jawad 2013:287 [ref. 32727], Thys et al. 2013:1 [ref. 32728], Matsuura 2014:25 [ref. 33576], Parin et al. 2014:556 [ref. 33547], Stewart & Struthers 2015:1747 [ref. 34300], Pietsch & Orr 2015:72 [ref. 34694], Sawai et al. 2017:99 [ref. 35370] with Mola species A, B and C, Nyegaard et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35492], Sawai et al. 2017:[1] [ref. 35699], Golani & Fricke 2018:184 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:183 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Mola Koelreuter 1766. Molidae.