Ranzania laevis

Familia: Molidae
Genus: Ranzania
Species: Ranzania laevis

Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776)

• Ostracion laevis Pennant, 1776
• Tetrodon truncatus Retzius, 1785
• Orthragoriscus truncatus (Retzius, 1785)
• Ranzania truncata (Retzius, 1785)
• Tetraodon truncatus Retzius, 1785
• Diodon dimidiatus Walbaum, 1792
• Orthragoriscus oblongus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
• Cephalus oblongu Shaw, 1804
• Cephalus varius Shaw, 1804
• Orthragus oblongus Rafinesque, 1810
• Mola planci Nardo, 1827
• Cephalus elongatus Risso, 1827
• Cephalus cocherani Traill, 1832
• Orthragoriscus battarae Ranzani, 1839
• Ranzania typus Nardo, 1840
• Ostracion boops Richardson, 1845
• Orthragoriscus solaris Gronow, 1854
• Ranzania makua Jenkins, 1895

• Pennant, T.. 1776. British zoology. 4th Edition. London. Vol. 3: Class III. Reptiles. Class IV. Fish. Benjamin White, London. 3: 1-425.

• Walbaum, J.J. 1792. Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i–viii] + 1–723, Pls. 1–3. BHL Reference page. 
• Nardo G.D., 1840. Spora un nuovo genere di conchiglie de mare Adriatico. Annali delle Scienze del Regno Lombardo-Veneto. Reference page. 
• Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Sanfilippo, Palermo. (Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i–iv] 3–69 [70 blank], Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia–iva + 71–105 [106 blank]). Pls. 1–20. BHL Reference page. 
• Risso, A. 1827: Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale, et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes maritimes. F. G. Levrault, Paris & Strasbourg. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale, ... v. 3: i-xvi + 1-480, Pls. 1-16. BHL Reference page. 
• Traill, T.S. 1832. Description of a new species of Cephalus, which it is proposed to name Cephalus cocherani, Cochranes’s sunfish. Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. Edinburgh. 6: 381–383.
• Ranzani, C. 1839. Dispositio familiae Molarum in genera et in species. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis 3: 63–82, Pl. 6 + foldout table. BHL Reference page. 
• Nardo, G.D. 1827. Prodromus observationum et disquisitionum Adriaticae ichthyologiae. Giornale di fisica, chimica e storia naturale, medicina, ed arti (series 2) Dec. II, v. 10: 22–40. Reference page. 
• Richardson, J. 1845. Ichthyology. Part 3. In: R.B. Hinds (ed.) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., C.B., F.R.G.S., etc., during the years 1836–42. No. 10. 99–150, Pls. 55–64.Reference page. 
• Gray,J.E. 1854. Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow, now in the British Museum. London. 1–196.
• Jenkins, O.P. 1895. Descriptions of a new species of Ranzania from the Hawaiian islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 5: 779–784.
• Fraser-Brunner A.. 1951. The ocean sunfishes (Family Molidae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool.. 1: 1-120. biostor.

• Ranzania laevis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).