mola, Tetraodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:334 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] [In M. Mediterraneo] Mediterranean Sea (including Montpellier, France; Genoa and Rome, Italy); Middleton-on-Sea, West Sussex, England, U. K., English Channel; Panzance, Cornwall, England, U. K., Northeastern Atlantic. Neotype: MZUB. Neotype designated by Sawai et al. 2017:[12] [ref. 35699]. •Valid as Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Fraser-Brunner 1951:113 [ref. 19546], Tortonese 1973:649 [ref. 7192], Khan 1975:295 [ref. 39482], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:300 [ref. 9277], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:366 [ref. 6441], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1349 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:908 [ref. 5660], Robins & Ray 1986:310 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:571 [ref. 25518], Matarese et al. 1989:628 [ref. 26885], Pequeño 1989:78 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:247 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:227 [ref. 14674], Tortonese 1990:1077 [ref. 18658], Gomon et al. 1994:917 [ref. 22532], Scott in Fischer et al. 1995:1277 [ref. 22830], Cervigón 1996:88 [ref. 24489], Santos et al. 1997:116 [ref. 23531], Lindberg et al. 1997:180 [ref. 23547], Carpenter et al. 1997:241 [ref. 23922], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:661 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:124 [ref. 24952], Anderson et al. 1998:29 [ref. 23611], Aguilera 1998:54 [ref. 24221], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:137 [ref. 24555], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:14 [ref. 24670], Fricke 1999:615 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:358 [ref. 25013], Díaz de Astarloa et al. 2000:401 [ref. 24427], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:649 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1435 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:3967 [ref. 26319], Kolpakov & Barabanshchikov 2001:423 [ref. 25413], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:158 [ref. 26753], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:604 [ref. 26158], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:852 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:1435 [ref. 26193], Santini & Tyler 2002:38 [ref. 25998], Choi et al. 2003:461, 702 [ref. 26218], Matsuura 2003:2015 [ref. 27119], Parenti 2003:2 [ref. 27311], Myers & Donaldson 2003:651 [ref. 27495], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:111 [ref. 27192], Parin 2003:S36 [ref. 28536], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:458 [ref. 28072], Nelson et al. 2004:186 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:65 [ref. 37112], Love et al. 2005:181 [ref. 37547], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:941 [ref. 28815], Mundy 2005:539 [ref. 28379], Randall et al. 2005:132 [ref. 28745], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Bray & Hoese 2006:1937 [ref. 29049], Fricke 2007:27 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:118 [ref. 29533], Bray 2008:860 [ref. 30620], Fricke 2008:59 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:124 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:76 [ref. 36649], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1100 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:191 [ref. 32708], Jawad 2013:287 [ref. 32727], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:182 [ref. 32953], Wirtz et al. 2013:137 [ref. 32972], Matsuura 2014:25 [ref. 33576], Parin et al. 2014:556 [ref. 33547], Psomadakis et al. 2015:340 [ref. 34104], Pinheiro et al. 2015:36 [ref. 34324], Pietsch & Orr 2015:72 [ref. 34694], Matsuura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3081 [ref. 34618], Fourriére et al. 2016:460 [ref. 34668], Katayama & Matsuura 2016:96 [ref. 34881], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:612 [ref. 34923], Nión et al. 2016:56 [ref. 35565], Kells et al. 2016:342 [ref. 35888], Nyegaard et al. 2017:8, 11 [ref. 35492], Sawai et al. 2017:[12] [ref. 35699], Golani & Fricke 2018:184 [ref. 36273], Moritz et al. 2018:46 [ref. 37308], Artüz & Fricke 2019:561 [ref. 36612], Brown et al. 2019:183 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:98 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:222 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:102 [ref. 36864], Eagderi et al. 2019:135 [ref. 37020], Reiner 2019:314 [ref. 38139], Wirtz & Biscoito 2019:4 [ref. 36989], Yapici 2019:14 [ref. 36891], Akyol & Tosunoğlu in Gerovasileiou et al. 2020:351 [ref. 37890], Bariche & Fricke 2020:113 [ref. 37515], Kim et al. 2020:207 [ref. 39118], Kovačić et al. 2020:34 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:628 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:138 [ref. 37637], Bañón & Maño 2021:99 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:90 [ref. 38303], Iglésias et al. 2021:184 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:62 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:226 [ref. 39279], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:705 [ref. 38945], Sawai 2021:1 [ref. 38499], Brunken & Woltmann 2022:25 [ref. 39077], Fermon et al. 2022:305 [ref. 39448], Heemstra 2022:482 [ref. 40308], Karalić 2022:59 [ref. 40087], Simian et al. 2022:377 [ref. 40776], Carvalho-Filho 2023:288 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Sawai 2023:6 [ref. 40027]). Current status: Valid as Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758). Molidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean sea, western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sea of Japan, Gulf of California/Mexico). Habitat: marine.