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The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a species of deepwater shark. Rarely seen by humans, it measures around 5.2 m (17 ft) long and is the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the relatively larger whale shark and basking shark .
A tourist exploring a popular diving site off of Indonesia's Komodo Island caught a lucky break on July 25 when a rare creature swam right by him.
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This list of megamouth shark specimens and sightings includes recorded human encounters with Megachasma pelagios, popularly known as the megamouth shark. A similar list is published by the Ichthyology Department of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida .
Adam Fisk reckons that a shark must have been sitting right underneath his kayak in late March because, as this video shows, once he threw out the fish bait he was towed "for miles." Adam told ...
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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.
Mitsukurina owstoni D. S. Jordan, 1898 (goblin shark) Family Odontaspididae (sand tiger sharks) Genus Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810. Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 (sand tiger shark) Genus Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838. Odontaspis ferox (A. Risso, 1810) (small-tooth sandtiger shark) Odontaspis noronhai (Maul, 1955) (big-eye sand tiger shark)