Rhincodontidae

Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, Zootaxa 1715, pp. 1-26 : 3

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.274128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230009

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD1087D9-FFA4-4A55-FF67-A64C4ED4FDAF

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Plazi

scientific name

Rhincodontidae
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Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 —Whale shark

Whale sharks have been seen by SCUBA divers at the south coast of Madeira in 2003 and 2004 but the species has apparently not previously been recorded from there. The descriptions by the divers leave no doubt as to the identification of the species and several of these divers had seen whale sharks previously in tropical areas.

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