ocean sunfish, common mola (Mola mola) Scan of illustration in The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (1915) Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Date 1915
Source Copy held at New York Public Library, scanned by Nicole Deyo, obtained from http://www.archive.org/details/waterbabiesfairy00king5
Author Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875; Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944, ill
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page_127_illustration,_The_Water_Babies.png
The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. The ocean sunfish is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. Mola mola resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally.