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Definition of Genus Mola
1. Noun. Type genus of the Molidae.
Group relationships: Family Molidae, Molidae
Member holonyms: Headfish, Mola, Ocean Sunfish, Sunfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mola
Literary usage of Genus Mola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... 494 The genus Mola contains a single species, Mola mola, one of the most
remarkable among fishes, known as sunfish, ..."
2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus MOLA. Cuvier. Ocean Sun-fishes. Very large fishes with ovate body and
compressed sides; tough, leathery skin without scales; a projecting nose; ..."
3. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"Genus MOLA Cuvier. Ocean Sun-fishes. Very large fishes with ovate body and
compressed sides; tough, leathery skin without scales; a projecting nose; ..."
4. Report on the Fresh Water Fish and Fisheries of India and Burma by Francis Day (1873)
"... River : is not found in the southern and western portions of Madras. It attains
several feet ill length, and is excellent eating. Genus—MOLA, Heckel. ..."