Cetorhinus maximus ...

Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765). Basking Shark. Well documented to 12.2 m (40 ft) FL (Mecklenburg et al. 2018); reports to 15.2 m (50 ft) TL not verifiable but possibly not exaggerated (Bigelow and Schroeder 1953). Circumglobal in cold waters; Yellow Sea, Seas of Japan and Okhotsk, and western N...

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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
Lamniformes
Cetorhinidae
Cetorhinus
Cetorhinus maximus
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Yukon
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818591
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5818591
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Summary:Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765). Basking Shark. Well documented to 12.2 m (40 ft) FL (Mecklenburg et al. 2018); reports to 15.2 m (50 ft) TL not verifiable but possibly not exaggerated (Bigelow and Schroeder 1953). Circumglobal in cold waters; Yellow Sea, Seas of Japan and Okhotsk, and western North Pacific Ocean to eastern North Pacific south of Aleutian Islands and in Gulf of Alaska to at least Punta Abreojos (26°42’N, 113°35’W), central Baja California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Records from further south and in Gulf of California are poorly documented (Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2006); Colombia to Chile (Ebert 2016). Coastal pelagic; depth: surface to 1,501 m (4,933 ft) (min.: Bigelow and Schroeder 1953; max.: Braun et al. 2018). ... : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 ...

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