Thought to be 2.7m wide, a creature was photographed by Fish SA Magazine after it was spotted lying dead on the sand at Petrel Cove near Encounter Bay on SA’s south coast. The South Australia Museum said the creature was likely to be a Mola alexandrini, also known as a bump-head sunfish. “You can tell it’s a bump-head sunfish rather than one of the other two types (Mola tecta, the Hoodwinker sunfish and Mola mola, the Ocean sunfish) because of the prominent chin you can see in the photo,” a museum spokesman said.
据信，这只生物宽2.7米，在南非南海岸邂逅湾附近的Petrel Cove被发现死在沙滩上后，被Fish SA Magazine拍摄到。南澳大利亚博物馆表示，这种生物很可能是隆头翻车鲀，也被称为隆头翻车鱼。博物馆发言人说：“你可以看出这是一条凸头翻车鱼，而不是其他两种翻车鱼中的一种，因为你可以在照片中看到突出的下巴。”。
Sunfish, which can grow as long as three metres and weigh as much as 2000kg, are found worldwide, with the species found at Petrel Cove being one of the most commonly spotted in South Australia.
翻车鱼可以长到三米长，重达2000公斤，在世界各地都有发现，在Petrel Cove发现的翻车鱼是南澳大利亚最常见的物种之一。
Curious locals have since flocked to the beach to take photos of the fish, despite it now starting to smell very bad. Social media users have expressed awe as well as sadness over the find. “Amazing. I wonder how prolific (多产的) they are,” one person wrote. “What a shame. They are beautiful. This makes me feel really sad,” said another. Another social media user, Dani Brown, shared a photo of herself lying next to the fish for a size comparison. “This is me with it today – for reference, I’m 164cm tall!” she captioned the photo.
好奇的当地人纷纷涌向海滩为这条鱼拍照，尽管它现在开始闻起来很难闻。社交媒体用户对这一发现表示敬畏和悲伤。一个人写道：“太棒了。我想知道它们有多多产。”。另一个人说：“真遗憾。它们很漂亮。这让我感到非常难过”。另一位社交媒体用户Dani Brown分享了一张自己躺在鱼旁边的照片，以进行体型比较。她在照片的标题中写道：“这是我今天穿的——作为参考，我有164厘米高！”
Danish marine biologist Dr Marianne Nyegaard previously said that it was difficult to figure out why the creatures die. “Stranded sunfish typically appear to have been healthy with no obvious cause of death, or impairment to explain why they ended up on the beach,” Dr Nyegaard said.
丹麦海洋生物学家Marianne Nyegaard博士此前表示，很难弄清楚这些生物死亡的原因。Nyegaard博士说：“搁浅的翻车鱼通常看起来很健康，没有明显的死亡原因，也没有损伤来解释它们为什么会出现在海滩上。”
The sighting comes years after a Mola mola, or ocean sunfish, made news across the world when it washed up near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia in 2019. At the time, Linette Grzelak, shared a photo of the creature to social media after her partner spotted the fish, which had already died, while out fishing. “A sunfish found by my partner along the Coorong a couple nights ago ... I thought it was fake,” the post read.
几年前，一只翻车鱼，或称海洋太阳鱼，于2019年被冲到南澳大利亚州默里河口附近，成为世界新闻。当时，Linette Grzelak在她的伴侣外出钓鱼时发现了这条已经死亡的鱼后，在社交媒体上分享了这只生物的照片。帖子中写道：“几天前晚上，我的伴侣在库容河边发现了一条翻车鱼……我以为它是假的。”。
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