Mola Mola, or also known as the Oceanic Sunfish, is a fish that is by nature spend most of its time in deep and the open ocean. Its named came from of its habit of sunning itself at the surface after a deep food-hunting dive. Because of its habits, it can be found in temperate and tropical waters around the world, such as Nusa Penida Bali, Punta Vincente Roca in the Galapagos Islands and a few spots in the northern Mediterranean.

Mola Mola has an unusual shape. It is a thick, 3 m (10-feet) long oval serving platter with two wide, blade-shaped handles positioned at one end, well off-center. Balance the platter vertically on a long edge. It has two anime eyes with a round and gaping mouth.  It can grow more than 10 feet long and weighing up to 2.200 pounds (1.000 kg) or more.  Such size requires a lot of food.

Mola Mola?s diet consist of squid, crustaceans, small fish, as well as jellyfish. It uses its beaklike teeth to gnaw at its prey, sucking it down its throat. Because its diet consists primarily of jellyfish, which are nutritionally poor, it must eat almost constantly.  It helps in keeping the jellyfish population at a balance.  

Mola-Mola also serves as a host for at least 40 different parasites, where cleaner fish will swim near Mola Mola to clean its body. This fish primarily swims in open water to cleansing up, where their presence may be used as an indicator of nutrient-rich waters where endangered species may be found.

Some 90% of the time, Mola Mola itself has been caught by fisheries.  It will often outnumber the target species caught in may hauls. What more concerning is that there are no conservative measure for this fish.  Little can be known about its diving behavior, population structure, and its distribution as well as its seasonal movements throughout the world?s ocean. Although that is so, now there is a growing recognition for this fish, where the scientific community is furthering their research to learn more about Mola Mola.

Source:

http://savenaturesavehuman.blogspot.co.id/2012/08/the-sun-fish.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-the-ocean-sunfish-115258763/

http://scubadiverlife.com/marine-species-mola-mola/

Photo by Erwin Sitohang