An expert identified the enormous species as a hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), which is one of the largest bony fish in the ...

But a New Zealand-based marine biologist who saw the photos suspected they had stumbled upon something far more rare — a hoodwinker sunfish. The aquarium’s mistake was understandable.

Last year a vessel in Sydney to Hobart Yacht race had to retire from the race after hitting a sunfish and breaking its rudder. Earlier this month a rare hoodwinker sunfish washed up on a beach in ...