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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 Whale sharks are known to aggregate in coastal areas. In the South Ari Marine Protected Area (Maldives) a aggregation, mostly represented by young males with a high level of residency, has been described in the literature.
Sara Valsecchi +2 more
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Insights into the structure of grey reef shark aggregation, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856), in two distinct channels of the Maldivian archipelago, Indian Ocean. [PDF]
J Fish BiolAbstract The grey reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos is one of the most frequently encountered reef‐associated shark species in the Maldives, yet very little is known about its local size structure or population dynamics. This study provides new insights into two aggregations of C.
Parmegiani A +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceRhincodon typus, or the whale shark, is the largest extant fish in the world and is classified as endangered on the IUCN’s Red List. Due to their enormous size and conservation status, whale sharks are rarely housed in aquaria.
Dove Alistair D M
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Low genetic differentiation across three major ocean populations of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND:Whale sharks are a declining species for which little biological data is available. While these animals are protected in many parts of their range, they are fished legally and illegally in some countries.
Jennifer V Schmidt +6 more
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Ningaloo Marine Park management program best practice for whale shark (Rhincodon typus) conservation
Frontiers in Conservation ScienceThe predictable nature of whale shark (Rhincondon typus) aggregations around the world forms the basis for nature-based tourism. The Ningaloo Marine Park (NMP), Western Australia is one of those locations and a management program has been in place since ...
Holly C Raudino +2 more
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Wound-healing capabilities of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and implications for conservation management. [PDF]
Conserv Physiol, 2021 Abstract Wound healing is important for marine taxa such as elasmobranchs, which can incur a range of natural and anthropogenic wounds throughout their life history. There is evidence that this group shows a high capacity for external wound healing.
Womersley F +3 more
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Whale shark Rhincodon typus foraging on small schooling fish in the northern Mexican Caribbean [PDF]
Journal of Fish BiologyIvan Velázquez–Abunader +1 more
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Diversity, 2023 Seas and oceans are contaminated by persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which are released into the environment by human activities. The chemical-physical properties of POPs induce high persistence and toxicity in marine organisms from the lowest to ...
Letizia Marsili +6 more
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, 2021 Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp.
Love, Milton S. +4 more
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Observation of whale shark Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 in oceanic waters of the Bay of Bengal, India
Journal of Fisheries, 2017 The present study was based on sighting of whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 on 13th and 14th October 2016 incidentally in oceanic waters of Bay of Bengal at a depth of 3340 and 3270 m. These two sightings were thus confirmed by photographs. Whale
Chelliah Babu +2 more
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