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The basking shark is the only extant member of the family Cetorhinidae, part of the mackerel shark order Lamniformes. Johan Ernst Gunnerus first described the species as Cetorhinus maximus , from a specimen found in Norway , naming it.
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.
Family Alopiidae (thresher sharks) Genus Alopias Rafinesque, 1810. Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935 (pelagic thresher shark) Alopias superciliosus R. T. Lowe, 1841 (big-eye thresher shark) Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (thresher shark) Family Cetorhinidae (basking sharks) Genus Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816. Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus ...
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 ...
However, Niamh was stunned and delighted by the sight of a friendly basking shark happily swimming Friendly basking shark spotted off the coast of Ireland Skip to main content
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 ...
A fisherman was left awestruck when a basking shark, the world’s second-largest species of fish, swam close to his boat on the west coast of Wales on Sunday, July 17.Alex Nel, a farmer and ...