Basking shark - Cetorhinus maximus
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
| Scientific Name |
Cetorhinus maximus |
| Author |
(Gunnerus, 1765) |
| Taxonomic Rank |
Species |
| Taxonomic # |
159907 |
| Common Names |
English: basking shark
Spanish: tiburón peregrino
Spanish: pez elefante
French: pèlerin
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| Current Standing |
valid |
| Taxonomic Parents |
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Euselachii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Cetorhinidae
Genus: Cetorhinus
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Taxonomic data is courtesy of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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| ITIS TSN | 159907 |
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Status - ESA, U.S. FWS
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Status - Red List, IUCN
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EN (Mediterranean)
EN (Europe)
EN (Global) |
| #records (spatial) | 9,678 |
| #records (non-spatial) | 0 |
| #datasets | 94 |
| Year | 1856 - 2025 |
| Latitude | -55.75 - 64.81 |
| Longitude | -122.88 - 178.53 |
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