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The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, [4] after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Typically, basking sharks reach 7.9 m (26 ft) in length.
Cetorhinidae is a family of filter feeding mackerel sharks, whose members are commonly known as basking sharks. It includes the extant basking shark, Cetorhinus, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius. [3] [4]
Megachasma is a genus of mackerel sharks. It is usually considered to be the sole genus in the distinct family Megachasmidae, though suggestion has been made that it may belong in the family Cetorhinidae, of which the basking shark is currently the sole extant member. [1] Megachasma is known from a single living species, Megachasma pelagios. [2 ...
The common name refers to its distinctive, thresher-like tail or caudal fin which can be as long as the body of the shark itself. Cetorhinidae: Basking sharks: 1 1 The basking shark is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and the second of three plankton-eating sharks, the other two being the whale shark and megamouth shark.
The last sighting of a live basking shark was in 2012, although the species used to be "very common" in New Zealand waters during the mid-late 1990s. The basking shark is the second-largest fish ...
• Newborn basking sharks are around 1.5 to 1.7 meters (4.9 to 5.6 ft) in length (1.5 m shown in the diagram above). [1] [3] • The size at maturity for each sex is unclear and varies from source to source. For male basking sharks, stated maturity sizes range from between 4.6 to 7.5 meters (15 to 25 ft) in length.
Niamh Ní Dhrisceoil is used to seeing all types of sea life in her job as a skipper of the Cape Clear Ferry in County Cork, Ireland. However, Niamh was stunned and delighted by the sight of a ...
Basking sharks, whale sharks, and megamouth sharks have independently evolved different strategies for filter feeding plankton: basking sharks practice ram feeding, whale sharks use suction to take in plankton and small fishes, and megamouth sharks make suction feeding more efficient by using the luminescent tissue inside of their mouths to ...