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#Ocean #sunfishes are some of the most distinctive looking vertebrates, and #museums & #aquaria love to include them in their gallery displays. Here for example are a common mola and a slender sunfish from the natural history museums @UNI_FIRENZE 1/
The best display of ocean sunfishes I have seen in Italy is probably that of the #zoology #museum @UniBologna
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More molas from the zoological collections at the Bologna museum 3/
And here are a preserved specimen and a skeleton of a Mola at the Doderlein zoological museum in Palermo, Sicily 4/
here is another Mola (with googly eyes) at the Natural History Museum in Trieste 5/
This is a cast of a common sunfish at the natural history museum in the city of Livorno 6/
and another Mola cast, this one at the natural history museum in Milan 7/
more casts, this one is @NtlMuseumsScot 8/
a slender sunfish @NHM_London 9/
a Mola from the @MNCNcomunica in Madrid 10/
and another common mola, this one from @museuciencies in Barcelona 11/
a slender sunfish & a common mola @museumbordeaux 12/
more common molas @MuseumLR 13/
another mola from a French museum, this one at the natural history museum in Nîmes 14/
This mola is on display @museumtoulouse 15/
this Mola cast + skeleton are @museumnaturalis in Leiden 16/
another large mola, this one at @naturhistoriska in Stockholm 17/
more molas, these from @NHM_Wien 18/
a slender sunfish and a Hoodwinker ocean sunfish @SAMuseum 19/
the gorgeous cast of a Sharptail mola from the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in Taiwan 20/
a Mola at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo 21/
and finally another Mola, this one @ROMtoronto 22/
