Slender sunfish

Slim bluegill ( Ranzania laevis)

The Slender Sunfish ( Ranzania laevis) or Stutz sunfish is the smallest species of the family of sunfish ( Molidae ). He is the only species of the genus Ranzania. Stutz sunfish reach a length of 70 to 100 centimeters. Your body is not disc shaped as that of his relatives, but to two times longer than high. The back is dark, the silvery flanks. At the head and around the eyes are white stripes. He swims like all other sunfish by rhythmic movements of the dorsal and the anal fin. Pelvic fins are absent. At the end of the body a Flossensaum replaced the tail fin, which is still present in the larva.

Fins formula: dorsal 18, anal 20

The Lean Bluegill lives widespread epipelagic western ( Florida to Brazil) and eastern Atlantic ( Scandinavia to South Africa) and in the eastern Pacific ( California to Chile). It feeds on pelagic crustaceans and worms.