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On 23 June 2015, a 6.1-metre-long (20 ft), 3,500-kilogram (7,716 lb) basking shark was caught accidentally by a fishing trawler in the Bass strait near Portland, Victoria, in southeast Australia, the first basking shark caught in the region since the 1930s, and only the third reported in the region in 160 years.
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]
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 ...
Basking shark This 6-tonne behemoth is only outsized by one other fish, the whale shark. In the UK they are mostly found off the western coastline, where they arrive in summer months.
Two marine biologists share 10 shark facts for kids, as well as why shark attacks happen and why sharks are essential to human survival.
The largest species is the carpenter's chimaera (Chimaera lignaria) of the oceans near Australia and New Zealand. It can reach up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length and weigh 15.4 kg (34 lb). [34] Frill sharks and cow sharks (Hexanchiformes) The largest frill sharks and cow shark is the Bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus). This large species ...
Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (thresher shark) Family Cetorhinidae (basking sharks) Genus Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816. Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) (basking shark) Family Lamnidae (mackerel sharks) Genus Carcharodon A. Smith, 1838. Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) (great white shark) Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810