The Mola tecta, or hoodwinker sunfish, was first observed in California in 2019. On Saturday, one washed up on Kehoe Beach on the Point Reyes National Seashore.
On Saturday morning, a surfer happened upon an alien-looking sea creature washed up on Kehoe Beach on the Point Reyes National Seashore. It had a nearly 6-foot-long oblong body with a fin popping out on each side, it had no tail, and one of its enormous googly eyes faced upward, seemingly saying hello. Christian Anthony snapped a photo of the specimen and called it a Mola mola in a post on the West Marin Feed, a social media account where he posts news and sightings in West Marin.
It can be easy to mix the two up, but Nyegaard said several traits set the Mola tecta apart from its close relative. The Mola tecta has a distinctive back end, or clavus, that’s “divided into two sections by a band of smooth skin that enables the fish to move the two sections relative to one another,” Nyegaard wrote. The clavus is not a true tail, as it’s just a flap the fish uses for steering.
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