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Rhincodon Smith 1829

Description

Genus Rhincodon Smith, 1829

Whale Shark

Rhincodon Smith, 1829: 443. Type species: Rhiniodon typus Smith, 1828, by monotypy, as interpreted by the ICZN, 1984 (Opinion 1278).

Notes

Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Family
Carcharhinidae
Genus
Rhincodon
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Rhincodon Smith, 1829 sec. White & Ko'Ou, 2018