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Cetorhinidae
homer
Cetorhinus maximus
Huge mouth filtering plankton while cruising
- Temperate
- Near the Equator
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Elongated
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Marine fish
Elongatedhomer is known from Cosmopolitan, frequent in cold to warm temperate waters as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Mackerel Sharks
- Family
- Cetorhinidae
- Genus
- Cetorhinus
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan, frequent in cold to warm temperate waters; rare in equatorial waters (Ref. 48844 ). Highly migratory species. At risk of extinction by overfishing because of low to very low productivity (Ref. 36717 ).
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