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Megamouth shark

Index Megamouth shark

The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a species of deepwater shark. [1]

67 relations: Asahi Shimbun, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Baja California Peninsula, Basking shark, Brazil, Burias (island), Cagayan de Oro, California, California Academy of Sciences, Chiba Prefecture, Coelacanth, Dana Point, California, Donsol, Ecuador, Ensenada, Baja California, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Filter feeder, Fish fin, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gill raker, Greenwood Publishing Group, Hawaii, Ichthyology, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japan, Jellyfish, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Killer whale, Leonard Compagno, Mexico, Mie Prefecture, Miocene, Misamis Oriental, Neontology, Oligocene, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Ovoviviparity, Pacific Ocean, Philippines, Photophore, Pio Duran, Albay, Planktivore, Plankton, Priabonian, Pseudomegachasma, Remora, Ross Piper, Sand shark, ..., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sea anchor, Sebastián Vizcaíno Bay, Senegal, Shark, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Sorsogon, South Africa, Sunosaki Lighthouse, Taiwan, Thresher shark, Toba Aquarium, United States Navy, Vietnam, Water column, Whale shark, YouTube. Expand index (17 more) »

Asahi Shimbun

The is one of the five national newspapers in Japan.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Baja California Peninsula

The Baja California Peninsula (Lower California Peninsula, Península de Baja California) is a peninsula in Northwestern Mexico.

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Basking shark

The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Burias (island)

Burias Island is one of the three major islands of Masbate province in the Philippines.

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Cagayan de Oro

, officially the, (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cagayan de Oro), or simply referred to as Cagayan de Oro City, is a highly urbanized city in Northern Mindanao,.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 26 million specimens.

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Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region, and the Greater Tokyo Area.

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Coelacanth

The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).

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Dana Point, California

Dana Point is a city located in southern Orange County, California.

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Donsol

, officially the, is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Ensenada, Baja California

Ensenada is a coastal city in Mexico, the third-largest in Baja California.

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Environmental Biology of Fishes

Environmental Biology of Fishes is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on all aspects of fish and fish-related biology, and the links to their environment.

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Filter feeder

Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.

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Fish fin

Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.

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Florida Museum of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural-history museum.

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Gill raker

Gill rakers in fish are bony or cartilaginous processes that project from the branchial arch (gill arch) and are involved with suspension feeding tiny prey.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Ichthyology

Ichthyology (from Greek: ἰχθύς, ikhthys, "fish"; and λόγος, logos, "study"), also known as fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Kaneohe, Hawaii

Kāneohe is a census-designated place (CDP) included in the City and County of Honolulu and located in Hawaiokinai state District of Koolaupoko on the island of Ookinaahu.

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Killer whale

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Leonard Compagno

Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno is an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mie Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, which is part of the Kansai region on the main Honshu island.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Misamis Oriental

Misamis Oriental (Sidlakang Misamis) is a province located in the region of Northern Mindanao in the Philippines.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

The is an aquarium located in the ward of Minato in Osaka, Japan, near Osaka Bay.

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Ovoviviparity

Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, or ovivipary, is a mode of reproduction in animals in which embryos that develop inside eggs remain in the mother's body until they are ready to hatch.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Photophore

A photophore is a glandular organ that appears as luminous spots on various marine animals, including fish and cephalopods.

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Pio Duran, Albay

, officially the, (Banwaan kan Pio Duran; Bayan ng Pio Duran), is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Planktivore

A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton.

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Plankton

Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.

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Priabonian

The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene epoch or series.

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Pseudomegachasma

Pseudomegachasma ("false megamouth") is an extinct genus of filter-feeding shark that was closely related to the modern sand tiger shark.

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Remora

The remoras, sometimes called suckerfish, are a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Perciformes.

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Ross Piper

Ross Piper is a British zoologist, entomologist, and explorer.

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Sand shark

Sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks, grey nurse sharks or ragged tooth sharks, are mackerel sharks of the family Odontaspididae.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in La Jolla, California, founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and Earth science research, public service, undergraduate and graduate training in the world.

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Sea anchor

A sea anchor (also known as a drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device used to stabilize a boat in heavy weather.

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Sebastián Vizcaíno Bay

Sebastián Vizcaíno Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Sebastián Vizcaíno) is a bay along the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula in northwestern Mexico.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Shark

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

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Shizuoka, Shizuoka

is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area.

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Sorsogon

Sorsogon (Bikol: Probinsya kan Sorsogon; Lalawigan ng Sorsogon), is a province in the Philippines located in the Bicol Region.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Sunosaki Lighthouse

is a lighthouse located in the city of Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan at the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Thresher shark

Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world; the family contains four species, all within the genus Alopias.

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Toba Aquarium

is a public aquarium, which is located in Toba, Mie, Japan.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Water column

A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediment.

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Whale shark

The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamouth_shark

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