1750 Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) Molidae Molas or Ocean Sunfishes Tetraodontiformes Teleostei Slender sunfish Cosmopolitan. Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Martinique, Venezuela (Ref. 51183), and Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Madeira to Scandinavia (Ref. 4711); Dakar, Senegambie, and Sierra Leone (Ref. 6952); South Africa. Eastern Pacific: central California, USA to Chile; rare north of Mexico (Ref. 2850). Indian Ocean: Madagascar (Ref. 33390), Mauritius (Ref. 58078), Reunion (Ref. 53568), Iran (Ref. 86583), Australia (49596). West Pacific: Japan (Ref. 559), China (Ref. 57879), Taiwan (Ref. 12711), New Zealand (Ref. 5755). FB 2814290 Ranzania laevis FB 2743516 Cephalus cocherani FB 2814291 1940 Ranzania laevis ISH 310-1979 1979 Ranzania laevis 100 - 40 m ISH 3229-1979 1979 Ranzania laevis ISH 382-1979 1979 Ranzania laevis 425 - 75 m AMNH 58253 1987 Ranzania laevis