Definition of Genus Mola

1. Noun. Type genus of the Molidae.

Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Molidae, Molidae
Member holonyms: Headfish, Mola, Ocean Sunfish, Sunfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mola

genus Micrurus
genus Mikania
genus Millettia
genus Miltonia
genus Mimosa
genus Mimus
genus Minuartia
genus Mirabilis
genus Mirounga
genus Mitchella
genus Mitella
genus Mnium
genus Mobula
genus Moehringia
genus Mohria
genus Mola (current term)
genus Mollienesia
genus Molluga
genus Moloch
genus Molothrus
genus Molucella
genus Molva
genus Momordica
genus Momotus
genus Monarda
genus Monardella
genus Moneses
genus Monilia
genus Monocanthus
genus Monochamus

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. ..."

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