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Observation of a Whale Shark Rhincodon typus (Orectolobiformes: Rhincodontidae) in the offshore waters of Rushikulya, Orissa, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2010
A Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) was sighted on the water surface, three km offshore and 12 km north of Rushikulya river mouth on 22 February 2009. The length of the whale shark indicates that it is likely to be a juvenile.
S. John
doaj   +1 more source

Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Pengembangan Ekowisata Hiu Paus Desa Botubarani, Kecamatan Kabila Bone, Kabupaten Bone Bolango

open access: yesSpizaetus, 2023
Desa Botubarani merupakan desa wisata dengan daya tarik utamanya yakni wisata hiu paus (Rhincodon typus) atau whale shark. Kegiatan wisata yang berlangsung diharapkan dan diupayakan terus berkembang serta memberikan manfaat bagi masyarakat setempat ...
Triyana Sefya Saleh   +2 more
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Rhincodon typus Smith 1828

open access: yes, 2014
Published as part of Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 73 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.73, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Carneiro, Miguel   +3 more
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Asymptotic Growth of Whale Sharks Suggests Sex-Specific Life-History Strategies

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Age and growth data are central to management or conservation strategies for any species. Circumstantial evidence suggests that male whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) grow to asymptotic sizes much smaller than those predicted by age and growth studies and ...
Mark G. Meekan   +10 more
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Movement patterns of juvenile whale sharks tagged at an aggregation site in the Red Sea. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Conservation efforts aimed at the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, remain limited by a lack of basic information on most aspects of its ecology, including global population structure, population sizes and movement patterns.
Michael L Berumen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rhincodon typus Smith 1828

open access: yes, 2019
Rhincodon typus Smith 1828 — Whale shark Status at New Ireland. New record, based on underwater observations in Albatross Passage and Echuca Patch, Kavieng district. Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropical and warm temperate waters. Epipelagic, oceanic and coastal. Marine.
Andréfouët, Serge   +6 more
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Pieces in a global puzzle: Population genetics at two whale shark aggregations in the western Indian Ocean

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2022
The whale shark Rhincodon typus is found throughout the world's tropical and warm‐temperate ocean basins. Despite their broad physical distribution, research on the species has been concentrated at a few aggregation sites.
Royale S. Hardenstine   +14 more
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Highlighting when animals expend excessive energy for travel using dynamic body acceleration

open access: yesiScience, 2022
Summary: Travel represents a major cost for many animals so there should be selection pressure for it to be efficient – at minimum cost. However, animals sometimes exceed minimum travel costs for reasons that must be correspondingly important.
Rory P. Wilson   +7 more
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Species associated with whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Galapagos Archipelago

open access: yes, 2022
Whale sharks ( Rhincodon typus ) frequently appear to interact or associate with other species, which vary depending on the community structure and the demographic of the whale sharks at each location globally.
Green,Sofia, Hearn,Alex, Green,Jonathan
openaire   +2 more sources

Issue Information

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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 7, July 2026.
wiley   +4 more sources

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