Rhincodon typus Smith 1828

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Orectolobiformes; Rhincodontidae; Rhincodon; Rhincodon typus; Yukon; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818571; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818571

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, 124°15’W), northern California to northern Chile and Islas Galápagos (Ebert 2003). Pelagic; depth: descends to in excess of 1,928 m (6,324 ft) (Tyminski et al. 2015). 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 13, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008