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Rhincodon typus Smith 1828
Description
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).
Notes
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
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rhincodontidae
- Genus
- Rhincodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orectolobiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Species
- typus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Chen, C. T., Liu, K. M. and Joung, S. J. 1997. Preliminary report on Taiwan's whale shark fishery. TRAFFIC Bulletin, 17, 53 - 57.
- Tomita, T., Kawai, T., Matsubara, H., Kobayashi, M. & Katakura, S. (2014) Northernmost record of a whale shark Rhincodon typus from the Sea of Okhotsk. Journal of Fish Biology, 84, 243 - 246. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12273
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Tyminski, J. P., de la Parra-Venegas, R., Gonzalez, J. & Hueter, R. E. (2015) Vertical movements and behavior of whale sharks as revealed by pop-up satellite tags in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. PLOS ONE, 10, e 0142156. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0142156