• Thumbnail for Basking shark
    The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species...
    40 KB (4,154 words) - 06:55, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Megamouth shark
    smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the relatively larger whale shark and basking shark. According to Sharkman's World Organization...
    18 KB (1,991 words) - 11:46, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lamniformes
    Lamniformes (redirect from Mackerel Shark)
    Genus Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816 Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) (basking shark) [4] †Cetorhinus huddlestoni (Welton, 2014) †Cetorhinus piersoni (Welton...
    35 KB (1,790 words) - 23:07, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whale shark
    mode that occurs in only two other sharks, the megamouth shark and the basking shark. They feed almost exclusively on plankton and small fishes and pose...
    64 KB (6,929 words) - 14:33, 1 September 2024
  • Zuiyo-maru carcass (category Individual sharks)
    tissue later indicated it was most likely the carcass of a basking shark. Decomposing basking shark carcasses lose most of the lower head area and the dorsal...
    11 KB (1,398 words) - 11:16, 5 September 2024
  • include Conger eels, humpback whales, elephant seals, ribbon or oarfish, basking sharks, and sea lions. LeBlond and Blousfield state no known creature matches...
    10 KB (1,217 words) - 14:24, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thresher shark
    thresher sharks form a monophyletic sister group to the clade containing the families Cetorhinidae (basking shark) and Lamnidae (mackerel sharks). The megamouth...
    18 KB (1,748 words) - 00:21, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Megalodon
    Megalodon (redirect from Megalodon shark)
    version of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) or the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus). The most...
    135 KB (12,953 words) - 14:45, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Filter feeder
    baleen whales, manta ray and three species of sharks—the whale shark, basking shark and megamouth shark). Some water birds such as flamingos and certain...
    28 KB (3,336 words) - 06:39, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of sharks
    dogfish Basking shark Beige catshark Bigeye houndshark Bigeye sand tiger Bigeye thresher shark Bighead catshark Bighead spurdog Bignose shark Bigeyed...
    84 KB (6,885 words) - 06:51, 24 September 2024