Meet the hoodwinker, the ocean sunfish we misidentified for years

Mola tecta, or hoodwinker sunfish, in Port Hardy, B.C.

The Hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, is the subject of a collaboration between researchers in Canada, New Zealand and California who are working to expose the sunfish that’s been hiding in plain sight, using crowd-sourced data from photographs and sightings along North America’s west coast.