Cetorhinus maximus

• 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; Lamniformes; Cetorhinidae; Cetorhinus; Cetorhinus maximus; Yukon; Baja; Okhotsk; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818591; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818591

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...