Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus 1765)

Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, Zootaxa 4775 (1), pp. 1-157 : 15-16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4346460
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scientific name	Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus 1765)
status

Treatment

Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus 1765) View in CoL —Basking shark

Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of one individual landed in Tyre (1 February 2006) and another in Tripoli (1 March 2015) .

Distribution. Cosmopolitan but antitropical (including Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea).

Conservation. IUCN: Global (VU: A2ad+3d, 1 October 2005); Med. ( EN: A2 bd, 25 March 2016); CITES Appendix II. Capture and threats: FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Cetorhinidae
Genus	Cetorhinus

Specimens

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