| Sharptail mola | |
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| Mounted specimen at the Museu Nacional de Historia Natural de Lisboa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Molidae |
| Genus: | Masturus T. N. Gill, 1884 |
| Species: | M. lanceolatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Masturus lanceolatus (É. Liénard, 1840)
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| Synonyms | |
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Orthagoriscus lanceolatus Liénard, 1840 | |
The sharptail mola (Masturus lanceolatus) is a species of mola found circumglobally in tropical and temperate waters. It is similar in appearance to the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), but can be distinguished by the projection on its clavus (pseudo-tail). Other common names include sharpfin sunfish, point-tailed sunfish, and trunkfish.[2][3] Rarely encountered, very little is known of the biology or life history of the sharptail mola. It has recently become important to commercial fisheries operating off eastern Taiwan.[4] This species is the only member of its genus.[5]
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- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Masturus lanceolatus". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ McGrouther, M. (2007): Sharptail Sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus. Australian Museum Fish Site.
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