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Cetorhinus maximus
Description
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).
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 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cetorhinidae
- Genus
- Cetorhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunnerus
- Species
- maximus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
- Bigelow, H. B. & Schroeder, W. C. (1953) Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Fishery Bulletin, 53.
- Sandoval-Castillo, J., Ramirez-Gonzalez, J. & Villavicencio-Garayzar, C. 2006. First record of basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) in Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8, e 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1755267214001365
- Ebert, D. A. (2016) Deep-sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, No. 10. Rome, FAO.
- Braun, C. D., Skomal, G. B. & Thorrold, S. R. (2018) Integrating archival tag data and a high-resolution oceanographic model to estimate basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) movements in the western Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 1 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.3389 / fmars. 2018.00025