Cetorhinus maximus
Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus 1765) —Basking shark Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of one individual landed in Tyre (1 February 2006) and another in Tripoli (1 March 2015). Distribution. Cosmopolitan but antitropical (including Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea). Conservatio...
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4346460 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E2F87D6FF8CFFDEFF2EFB84FABDFBC0 |
| Summary: | Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus 1765) —Basking shark Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of one individual landed in Tyre (1 February 2006) and another in Tripoli (1 March 2015). Distribution. Cosmopolitan but antitropical (including Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea). Conservation. IUCN: Global (VU: A2ad+3d, 1 October 2005); Med. (EN: A2 bd, 25 March 2016); CITES Appendix II. Capture and threats: FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action. Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887 |
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