سمكة الشمس العملاقة

سمكة الشمس العملاقة
Mola alexandrini (Bump-head Mola).jpg
A giant sunfish swimming amongst a small school of pilot fish while a scuba diver looks on in the background
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
التصنيف العلمي edit
أصنوفة غير معروفة (أصلحها): Mola
Species:
Template:Taxonomy/MolaM. alexandrini
Binomial name
Template:Taxonomy/MolaMola alexandrini
(Ranzani, 1839)[2]
Synonyms
  • Orthragoriscus eurypterus Philippi 1892
  • Orthragoriscus ramsayi Giglioli 1839[3]
  • Mola ramsayi Giglioli 1883[4]

سمكة الشمس العملاقة giant sunfish أو bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini),[4] (also known as the Ramsay's sunfish, southern sunfish, southern ocean sunfish, short sunfish or bump-head sunfish in various parts of the world),[5] is a fish belonging to the family Molidae. It is closely related to the more widely known Mola mola, and is found in the Southern Hemisphere.[6] With a specimen found dead near the Azores in 2021 weighing in at 2744 kg (6049 lb) it is the largest extant bony fish species in terms of maximum recorded mass by a wide margin. It can be found basking on its side occasionally near the surface, which is thought to be used to re-heat themselves after diving in cold water for prey, recharge their oxygen stores, and attract gulls to free them of parasites.[3]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

التصنيف

In December 2017, it was demonstrated that Mola alexandrini may be a senior synonym of Mola ramsayi (Ranzani 1839) through both historically and newly published morphological data.[7] In July 2020, building upon this scientific learning, the larval forms of these species were discovered for the first time and confirmed with DNA analyses by Australian and New Zealander scientific teams.[8][9][10][11]

A huge bumphead mola caught at Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia in 1882.

The ocean sunfish are in the genus Mola, currently composed of three species: Mola mola, Mola alexandrini, Mola tecta.[12] Also known as the southern ocean sunfish or southern sunfish, Mola alexandrini are commonly found in the epipelagic zone of the ocean which is the part of the ocean where enough light penetrates for photosynthesis to occur[13] although recent studies also suggest that the sunfish are more common in deep waters than previously thought.[14]


الوصف

انظر أيضاً: Median/paired fin propulsion and Median paired fin (MPF) propulsion
Taxidermy with a total length of 3 m (9.8 ft) and a height of 3.5 m (11 ft) in Aqua World

Mola alexandrini has a relatively small mouth and its teeth fused into a parrot-like beak. It can reach up to 3.3 m (11 ft) in length and 2,700 kilograms (6,000 lb) in mass, making it the heaviest bony fish.[15][16] Their bodies are flat and round, with large fins that they swish back and forth to propel themselves with as they swim horizontally. Their skin has rough denticles, leathery texture, with brown and gray coloring with pale blotches until death when they turn white.[4] The body of the species has a thick white subcutaneous gelatinous layer that is smooth to the touch with a laterally compressed body covered in small rectangular scales.[7] Both mola species have no caudal bones, ribs, or pelvic fins, and have fused vertebrae, leaving only their median fins to propel themselves.[17] It can be recognized from the Mola mola by their lesser number of ossicles and lacking of a vertical band of denticles at its base.[5] In Mola, the lower jaws are intact while the upper jaws are slightly forked.[18] Also present on the head are lateral lines with small white rounded otoconia. On the sides of the fish are small gill openings that are covered by soft gill membrane and gill rakers which are covered under a subcutaneous gelatinous layer. In these species, all fins are spineless and triangular with pectoral fins being small and rounded, located midlaterally fitting into shallow grooves on sides of the body. Dorsal fins are located on both sides of the anal fin.[7]

M. alexandrini can be distinguished by its unique characteristics of head bump, a chin bump, rectangular body scales, and rounded clavus. Although adult sunfish look generally similar, they are distinguishable using the seven characteristics: number of clavus fin rays, number of clavus ossicles, shape of clavus margin, presence of head bump, proportion of body length compared to body height,[19] shape of body scales,[20] and the presence of a chin bump.[21]

Alongside these species, there are no external differences between sexes, however, the shape of gonads differs in males and females with females having a single ball-shaped ovary and males having a pair of elongated, rod-like testes.[7]

Overall, the maximum recorded weight of M. alexandrini is 2,744 kg for a 325-cm total length specimen caught off the coast of Faial Island, Azores, Portugal in late 2021.[22] With these records, this specimen is currently regarded as the world's heaviest bony fish specimen. It exceeds by nearly half a ton (444 kg) the largest previously known specimen (2300 kg), caught off Kamogawa, Japan in 1996.[23]

التوزع

Mola alexandrini has been found all over the globe and is widely distributed throughout the world's oceans except for two polar regions; the Arctic and Antarctic.[7] These species have been collected from waters off Japan, Taiwan, Galapagos Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Oman, and Spain.[7] It can be found in the southwest Pacific, especially around Australia and New Zealand, and the southeast Pacific around Chile. Its range also extends to the southeast Atlantic near South Africa. During different seasons on the Pacific side of Japan, M. alexandrini moves northward in the summer and southward in the winter.[24] Seasonal migration is driven by temperature differences and productive frontal areas.[25]

الموئل

Although members of the genus Mola are found in many oceans throughout the world, this species thrives best in the open ocean of tropical and temperate seas preferring warmer temperatures with temperatures being between 16.8 C - 25.6 C and averaging 19.9 C [7]. Many occurrences of these fish are linked to influences of ocean currents.[26] With the environment, sunfish have different movement patterns. During the nighttime, these species stay in the same areas but, during the daytime, they stay below the thermocline.[25] Vertical movement patterns correlated with thermocline depth and were distinct from December to May.[25]

النمو

Over time, as this species develops, there are physical changes to the body. This includes a head bump forming from above the eyes to the front of the dorsal-fin base and a chin bump developing from beneath the lower jaw to beneath the pectoral fins. Additionally, developing with age are lateral ridges from above the head and below the eyes to beyond the pectoral fins. Characteristics that distinguish Mola alexandrini from other species in genus Mola are clavus ossicles, a snout ossicle and a chin ossicle that develop overtime with age.[7] Transitioning from eggs into larvae, specimens can reach between 1.42 and 1.84 mm.[27] At 1.42 mm, a globular shape is portrayed. As they move into the pre-juvenile stage, specimens reach between 5 mm to 59 mm. As they continue to grow, their body transitions into adult body proportions, including an elongated body. Once these species reach the juvenile stage, specimens are described to be as big as 305–750 mm in total length. Moving into adulthood, specimens are claimed to reach 4000 mm with well-defined features along with pigmentations of a gray, olive gray or blackish with a brown cast.[27]

التكاثر

Sunfish spawn in the outer circulation of temperate Atlantic, Pacific Oceans, and in the Mediterranean Sea.[27] There is no absolute determination of when the best time is for spawning season, but research has shown that spawning in the Fall season and Winter seasons during the month of September result in bigger fish.[27] Fertilization occurs when sperm and eggs are shed in the water.[28]  Being that sunfish are so large, a single adult female can produce 300 million eggs.[28] Unfertilized eggs were measured at 0.42-0.45 mm in diameter.[27]

العمر

Just like many other fish, high mortality rates are common for eggs, larvae, pre-juveniles, and small juveniles due to predators.[29] There have been few reports on predation of Mola species however, predation by fish are from families Scombridae, Carangidae, Coryphaenidae, Xiphiidae, and Alepisauridae.[29] Although there is not much research on the lifespan of ocean sunfish, it is said for ocean sunfish to take about 20 years for the species to reach a length of 3 m.[30]

السلوك

Sunfish swim by moving their dorsal and anal fins back and forth, both fins moving in the same direction at the same time.[28] Adults are reported to travel mainly in pairs and sometimes in groups.[27] Migrating from one place to another requires high tolerance and it is found that sunfish have high thermal tolerance undergoing quick and large temperature changes diving down the ocean several hundred meters.[26] Sometimes, sunfish come up to the shallow water to recover from hypoxia from feeding below the thermocline.[26] Like many other fish, sunfish adapt in response to the environment.[26] During the daytime, sunfish showed diel movement patterns with depths deeper than the nighttime.[25] During the nighttime, sunfish remained in temperatures between 18–24 C while the fish moved to different areas during the day time.[25] Vertical shifts were correlated with temperature shifts.[25]  Sunfish may dive deeper into cooler waters to cool the muscles or repay oxygen debts.[25]

الطعام

They mainly consume jellyfish, which are of low nutritional content but abundant, and they will also eat brittle stars, small fish, plankton, algae, salps, and mollusks.[3] Sunfish also feed on ctenophores, hydrozoans, and small crustaceans.[28] It is also known for sunfish to swim up to the shallow water to eat cleaner fish and seabirds at the surface.[26] Juvenile sunfish feed in coastal areas in the coastal food web while larger sunfish dive deeper.[29] These species are active predators hunting in dynamic frontal systems.[26]


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

الافتراس

Predators include tiger sharks and orcas, though attacks are rare. Shark predation on all species of sunfish is sporadic, suggesting that ocean sunfish are of low quality or unpleasant for tiger sharks. With smart tactics, tiger sharks can stalk and ambush their prey and are able to bite through the thick gelatinous dermis.[29]

أدوار في النظام البيئي

The importance of ocean sunfish in marine food webs are unknown.[29]  However, since ocean sunfish feed on gelatinous prey with a generalist diet, this suggests that these species play an important role in coastal food webs.[31] If sunfish were to be removed as bycatch, it can drive localized trophic cascades with top-down control being reduced.[32]

الأهمية الاقتصادية للبشر

Sunfish have economic value in tourism industries.[33] Seeing these fish are unpredictable, however, their unpredictable occurrences make exciting tours and recreational scuba diving.[33] In locations like the Galapagos Islands and the Alboran Coast in the Mediterranean, sunfish are spotted frequent enough to have sunfish tours.[26] Also, scuba diving tourism in Bali and the Nusa Penida islands have rapidly increased over the last few decades. Only a small number of fisheries target sunfish, including those in Taiwan and Japan. In Indonesia, sunfish are released, eaten by locals, used as bait, or end up at a fish market on rare occasions.[33]

وضع الحفاظ

The conservation status of M. alexandrini has not been evaluated aside from M. mola. Fisheries around the world catch ocean sunfish as bycatch. M.mola was listed by the international Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as "vulnerable" due to the high level of estimated bycatch in South African longline fishery with an annual estimated 340,000 annual catches. Both M. mola and M. alexandrini were listed as "high risk" bycatch species in the longline fishery off eastern Australia.  Threat levels are lower than what is stated on the IUCN listing in Australian, New Zealand, and South African fisheries. Currently, the Indonesian government, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries has placed sunfish on a plan for protection.[33]

المراجع

  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. ^ "Mola alexandrini summary page".
  3. ^ أ ب ت Appeltans, W., Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
  4. ^ أ ب ت "Southern Ocean Sunfish, Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883) - Australian Museum". australianmuseum.net.au.
  5. ^ أ ب Diane J. Bray, 2011, Short Sunfish, or even. Mola ramsayi, in Fishes of Australia, accessed 02 Feb 2014, http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/784 Archived 2015-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Molas - Mola - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life.[dead link]
  7. ^ أ ب ت ث ج ح خ د Sawai, Etsuro; Yamanoue, Yusuke; Nyegaard, Marianne; Sakai, Yoichi (2017-12-05). "Redescription of the bump-head sunfish Mola alexandrini (Ranzani 1839), senior synonym of Mola ramsayi (Giglioli 1883), with designation of a neotype for Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758) (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae)". Ichthyological Research. 65: 142–160. doi:10.1007/s10228-017-0603-6. ISSN 1341-8998. S2CID 10364811.
  8. ^ http://www.medianet.com.au/releases/189537; https://www.9news.com.au/national/giant-bumphead-sunfish-australian-museum-discovery-mola-larve/a1899741-912e-47bf-b5f8-eebe578e2c20
  9. ^ "Giant Sunfish larva identified for the first time - and it is tiny". 21 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Scientists crack the enigmatic beginnings of the sunfish". 21 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Sunfish no more a quandary for scientists". 22 July 2020.
  12. ^ Yasemi, M.; Nazari Bejgan, A. R. (2013) The first record of southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi from Northern Oman Sea, Iran. Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 13, 242–246.
  13. ^ Matsuura, K., 2002. Molidae. Molas (ocean sunfishes, headfishes). In Carpenter, K. E. (ed.)
  14. ^ Phillips, N. D.; Harrod, C.; Gates, A. R.; Thys, T. M.; Houghton, J. D. R. (2015) Seeking the sun in deep, dark places: mesopelagic sightings of ocean sunfishes (Molidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 4, 1118–1126.
  15. ^ Kuta, Sarah (19 October 2022). "This 6,000-Pound Sunfish Is the Largest Bony Fish on Record". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 20 October 2022. Weighing in at roughly 6,050 pounds—the size of a large SUV—the fish was 882 pounds heavier than the reigning bony fish world record-holder, a 5,070-pound sunfish discovered off the coast of Japan in 1996 ... They are related to ocean sunfish (Mola mola) but can be twice as heavy.
  16. ^ "World's heaviest bony fish identified and correctly named".
  17. ^ Tierney M. Thys; Jonathan Whitney; Alex Hearn; Kevin C. Weng; Cesar Pen Aherrera; L. Jawad; J. Alfaro-Shigueto; J.C. Mangel; Stephen A. Karl (2013). "First record of the southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi, in the Galapagos Marine Reserve". Marine Biodiversity Records. 6: 1–4. doi:10.1017/S1755267213000377.
  18. ^ R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (1839). Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis. Vol. 3. R. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna.
  19. ^ Yoshita, Y.; Yamanoue, Y.; Sagara, K.; Nishibori, M.; Kuniyoshi, H.; Umino, T., Sakai, Y.; Hashimoto, H.; Gushima, K. (2009) "Phylogenetic relationships of two Mola sunfshes (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) occurring around the coasts of Japan, with notes on their geographical distribution and morphological characteristics". Ichthyology Research, 56, 232–244.
  20. ^ Fraser-Brunner 1951
  21. ^ Sawai, E.; Yamanoue, Y.; Jawad, L.; Al-Mamry, J.; Sakai, Y. (2017) "Molecular and morphological identification of Mola sunfsh specimens (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) from the Indian Ocean". Species Divers, 2, 99–104.
  22. ^ "'Majestic' 3-ton sunfish sets a new world record for largest bony fish ever discovered". Live Science. 14 October 2022.
  23. ^ "A Giant Sunfish in the Azores Weighed in as the Heaviest Bony Fish on Record".
  24. ^ Sawai, Etsuro; Yamada, Morihiko (2020). "Bump-head sunfish Mola alexandrini photographed in the north-west Pacific Ocean mesopelagic zone". Journal of Fish Biology. 96 (1): 278–280. doi:10.1111/jfb.14214. PMID 31762019. S2CID 208276149.
  25. ^ أ ب ت ث ج ح خ Chang, Ching-Tsun; Lin, Shian-Jhong; Chiang, Wei-Chuan; Musyl, Michael K.; Lam, Chi-Hin; Hsu, Hung-Hung; Chang, Yung-Chou; Ho, Yuan-Shing; Tseng, Chen-Te (2020-05-01). "Horizontal and vertical movement patterns of sunfish off eastern Taiwan". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. Oceanic biodiversity under climate change: shifts in natural and human systems. 175: 104683. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104683. S2CID 210616246.
  26. ^ أ ب ت ث ج ح خ Nyegaard, Marianne; Loneragan, Neil; Hall, Steve; Andrew, James; Sawai, Etsuro; Nyegaard, Mette (2018-07-31). "Giant jelly eaters on the line: Species distribution and bycatch of three dominant sunfishes in the Southwest Pacific". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 207: 1–15. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2018.03.017. S2CID 134826783.
  27. ^ أ ب ت ث ج ح Faber, Daniel J.; McAllister, Don E. (1979-06-01). "Development of Fishes of the Mid-Atlantic Bight. An Atlas of egg, larval and juvenile stages". Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 36 (6): 706–707. doi:10.1139/f79-107.
  28. ^ أ ب ت ث Parkinson, Kerryn (4 July 2021). "Ocean Sunfish, Mola Mola (Linnaeus 1758)". The Australian Museum.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ^ أ ب ت ث ج Nyegaard, Marianne; Andrzejaczek, Samantha; Jenner, Curt S.; Jenner, Micheline-Nicole M. (2019-12-01). "Tiger shark predation on large ocean sunfishes (Family Molidae) – two Australian observations". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 102 (12): 1559–1567. doi:10.1007/s10641-019-00926-y. S2CID 204907626.
  30. ^ 俊之, 中坪; 一美, 廣瀬 (2007). "飼育下におけるマンボウの成長". 水産増殖. 55 (3): 403–407. doi:10.11233/aquaculturesci1953.55.403.
  31. ^ Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Pajuelo, Mariela; Pasara‐Polack, Andrea; Vela, German; Segura‐Cobeña, Eduardo; Alfaro‐Shigueto, Joanna (2018-12-11). "The effect of Peruvian small‐scale fisheries on sunfishes (Molidae)". Journal of Fish Biology. 94 (1): 77–85. doi:10.1111/jfb.13862. ISSN 0022-1112. PMID 30421420. S2CID 53293832.
  32. ^ Phillips, Natasha D.; Kubicek, Lukas; Payne, Nicholas L.; Harrod, Chris; Eagling, Lawrence E.; Carson, Carol D.; Cappanera, Valentina; Houghton, Jonathan D. R. (September 2018). "Isometric growth in the world's largest bony fishes (genus Mola )? Morphological insights from fisheries bycatch data". Journal of Morphology. 279 (9): 1312–1320. doi:10.1002/jmor.20872. PMID 30187934. S2CID 52158926.
  33. ^ أ ب ت ث Nyegaard, Marianne (2018). There be giants! The importance of taxonomic clarity of the large ocean sunfishes (genus Mola, Family Molidae) for assessing sunfish vulnerability to anthropogenic pressures (phd thesis). Murdoch University.
تمّ الاسترجاع من "https://www.marefa.org/w/index.php?title=سمكة_الشمس_العملاقة&oldid=2923022"