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[Illust] Sharks (Basking Shark - Cetorhinus maximus & Porbeagle Shark - Lamna nasus)
| Subject: | [Illust] Sharks (Basking Shark - Cetorhinus maximus & Porbeagle Shark - Lamna nasus)
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Date: 2005:01:17 23:32:49
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[Illust] Sharks (Basking Shark - Cetorhinus maximus & Porbeagle Shark - Lamna nasus)
Plate 249. The Basking Shark, or Bone Shark. Cetorhinus maximus (L.), Blainville. The Mackerel Shark. Lamna cornubica, (Gmel.) Fleming.
Image ID: figb0520, Historic NMFS Collection
Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating sharks along with the whale shark and megamouth shark.
The porbeagle (Lamna nasus) is a species of mackerel shark in the family Lamnidae, distributed widely in the cold and temperate marine waters of the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere.
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| Historical illustration of a basking shark and a porbeagle (under the obsolete name Lamna cornubica), both commercially important species. |
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