basking shark
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[edit]Noun
[edit]basking shark (plural basking sharks)
- A very large shark, Cetorhinus maximus, that feeds at or close to the surface by filtering plankton from the water and is found in all the world's temperate oceans.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 89:
- Like the whale shark, the basking shark is a huge, slow-moving plankton feeder. Also like the whale shark, the basking shark is the sole member of a family created especially to accommodate it.
Translations
[edit]Cetorhinus maximus
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Further reading
[edit]- basking shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cetorhinus maximus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies