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Ranzania laevis (Trunkfish; Truncated sunfish; Slender sunfish; Slender mola; Oblong sunfish; Dwarf sunfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) is a mola of the family Molidae, the only member of the genus Ranzania, found globally in tropical and temperate seas. Its length is up to 1 m (3.3 ft). Several stranding and mass stranding events have been discovered on beaches near Albany, Western Australia.
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Predators

Diodon eydouxii (Pelagic porcupinefish)[1]
Phoebastria immutabilis (Laysan Albatross)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Agamonema ranzaniae <Unverified Name>[2]
Orophocotyle divergens[2]
Orophocotyle planci[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0