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Main identification features
- tail fin ~symmetric, base with keel
- very large mouth
- 5 extremely long gill slits
CETORHINUS
BASKING SHARKS
Stout body; pointed snout; large mouth; 5 very long gill slits that extend onto the top and bottom of the body, all before the pectoral; long, hair like gill rakers; teeth numerous, minute, hooked; tail a nearly symmetrical half-moon; tail base depressed, with long, strong keel; 2 dorsal fins, the first midway between the pectorals and pelvics.
Cetorhinus has a single species, which occurs circumglobally in subtropical to temperate waters and which extends into the fringes of the tropical eastern Pacific.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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