. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 68(2): 115-118. 1969 A SECOND RECORD OF THE SLENDER MOLA, RANZANIA LAEVIS (PENNANT), FROM CALIFORNIA. Four slender molas, captured in a purse seine at the "43-fathom spot" (lat. 32°40'N, long. 117°59'W) some 20 miles SE of San Clemente Island during the night of September 12, 1968, appear to be the second record of the species from California. According to crew member Shoichi Abe of the seiner Determined, the net was set for bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus,
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 68(2): 115-118. 1969 A SECOND RECORD OF THE SLENDER MOLA, RANZANIA LAEVIS (PENNANT), FROM CALIFORNIA. Four slender molas, captured in a purse seine at the "43-fathom spot" (lat. 32°40'N, long. 117°59'W) some 20 miles SE of San Clemente Island during the night of September 12, 1968, appear to be the second record of the species from California. According to crew member Shoichi Abe of the seiner Determined, the net was set for bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, but when pursed it contained only the four Ranzania and an unidentified shark. Abe brought two of the molas to California State Fisheries Laboratory to have them identified, and another crew member took the other two to John Olguin, Cabrillo Beach Marine Museum, who retained one for displaying in the museum and turned the other over to me. The three specimens in my possession (258, 277, and 298 mm TL) have been placed in the fish collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (accession numbers LACM 30177-1 through-3).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
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