Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) . Mola or Ocean Sunfish . Confirmed to 2.7 m ( 8.9 ft ) TL (Tierney Thys, pers. comm. to M.L.); possibly to 4 m ( 13.1 ft ) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002 ), and southern Kuril Islands ( Parin 2003 ; Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Las Cruces ( 33°29’S ), central Chile ( Brito 2003 ), including Gulf of California (Scott in Fischer et al. 1995 ), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Depth: surface to 844 m ( 2,768 ft ) (min.: Clemens and Wilby 1946 ; max.: Potter and Howell 2011 ). Deepest known occurrence off eastern Pacific coast is 556 m ( 1,824 ft ) ( Thys et al. 2015 ). We note that the NWFSC-FRAM database contains a number of records of fish ostensibly caught by bottom trawls at depths deeper than 844 m (e.g., 942 m , 3,090 ft , 954 m , 3,129 ft , 1095 m , 3,592 ft , and 1,184 m , 3,884 ft ). However, it is likely that all of these represent catches made in the water column during net deployment or retrieval.