Morphological description (GBIF)(Mô tả hình thái (GBIF))
Whale Shark. Reliable to at least 17.0 m (55.8 ft) (Weigman 2016), probable to 20.0 m (65.6 ft) TL (Chen et al. 1997). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean at least as far northward as just north of Hokkaido Island, Japan (Tomita et al. 2014); Patrick’s Point (41 ° 10 ’ N, 124 ° 15 ’ W), northern California to northern Chile and Islas Galápagos (Ebert 2003). Pelagic; depth: descends to in excess of 1,928 m (6,324 ft) (Tyminski et al. 2015).
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Danh pháp đồng nghĩa & Phân loại gốc
Rhiniodon typus Smith, South African Comm. Advertiser, Vol. 3, No. 145, p. 2, 1828.
