Rhincodon typus Smith 1828 ...

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Orectolobiformes; Rhincodontidae; Rhincodon; Rhincodon typus; Milton; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818570; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5818570

Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828. Whale Shark. Reliable to at least 17.0 m (55.8 ft) (Weigman 2016), probable to 20.0 m (65.6 ft) TL (Chen et al. 1997). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean at least as far northward as just north of Hokkaido Island, Japan (Tomita et al. 2014); Patrick’s Point (41°10’N, 12...