Faster access than browser!
98 relations: Amazon River, Aphrodisiac, Argos system, Australia, Basking shark, Bass Strait, Bay of Fundy, Black Sea, Boreal ecosystem, Brackish water, British Columbia Coast, Buoyancy, Calanoida, Calanus, Cape Cod, Cetacean surfacing behaviour, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Charles John Cornish, Chumming, CITES, Commensalism, Commercial fishing, Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Cookiecutter shark, Cosmopolitan distribution, Dardanelles, Deimatic behaviour, Display (zoology), Dorsal fin, Egg cell, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Filter feeder, Fish fin, Fish migration, Fish scale, Fishing trawler, Gestation, Gill, Gill raker, Globster, Great white shark, Guernsey Post, Hebrides, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Intraspecific competition, Invertebrate, IUCN Red List, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Jonathan Couch, ..., Killer whale, Lamniformes, Lamprey, Laurens Theodorus Gronovius, Leather, List of postage stamps of Guernsey, List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish, List of threatened sharks, Liver, Massachusetts, Mediterranean Sea, Megamouth shark, Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks, Ministry of Fisheries (New Zealand), Museums Victoria, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oil, Oophagy, Ovary, Overexploitation, Overwintering, Ovoviviparity, Pelagic zone, Placenta, Planktivore, Plankton, Plesiosauria, Portland, Victoria, Sea of Azov, Sea of Marmara, Sea serpent, Shark, Shark cartilage, Shark fin soup, Shark finning, Shark liver oil, Species of concern, Squalene, Stronsay Beast, Theodore Gill, Traditional Chinese medicine, Victoria (Australia), Vulnerable species, Whale shark, Yolk, Zooplankton, Zuiyo-maru carcass. Expand index (48 more) »
Amazon River
The Amazon River (or; Spanish and Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest.
New!!: Basking shark and Amazon River · See more »
Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac or love drug is a substance that increases libido when consumed.
New!!: Basking shark and Aphrodisiac · See more »
Argos system
Argos is a satellite-based system which collects, processes and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms worldwide.
New!!: Basking shark and Argos system · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Australia · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Basking shark · See more »
Bass Strait
Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.
New!!: Basking shark and Bass Strait · See more »
Bay of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy (or Fundy Bay; Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine.
New!!: Basking shark and Bay of Fundy · See more »
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.
New!!: Basking shark and Black Sea · See more »
Boreal ecosystem
A boreal ecosystem is an ecosystem with a subarctic climate in the Northern Hemisphere, roughly between latitude 50° to 70°N.
New!!: Basking shark and Boreal ecosystem · See more »
Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.
New!!: Basking shark and Brackish water · See more »
British Columbia Coast
The British Columbia Coast or BC Coast is Canada's western continental coastline on the North Pacific Ocean.
New!!: Basking shark and British Columbia Coast · See more »
Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
New!!: Basking shark and Buoyancy · See more »
Calanoida
Calanoida is an order of copepods, a kind of zooplankton.
New!!: Basking shark and Calanoida · See more »
Calanus
Calanus is a genus of marine copepod in the family Calanidae (Order Calanoida).
New!!: Basking shark and Calanus · See more »
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
New!!: Basking shark and Cape Cod · See more »
Cetacean surfacing behaviour
Cetacean surfacing behaviour or breaching is a group of behaviours demonstrated by the Cetacea infraorder when they come to the water's surface to breathe.
New!!: Basking shark and Cetacean surfacing behaviour · See more »
Charles Alexandre Lesueur
Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.
New!!: Basking shark and Charles Alexandre Lesueur · See more »
Charles John Cornish
Charles John Cornish (28 September 1858 – 30 January 1906) was an English naturalist and author.
New!!: Basking shark and Charles John Cornish · See more »
Chumming
Chumming (American English from Powhatan) is the practice of luring various animals, usually fish such as sharks, by throwing "chum" into the water.
New!!: Basking shark and Chumming · See more »
CITES
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.
New!!: Basking shark and CITES · See more »
Commensalism
Commensalism is a long term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species are neither benefited nor harmed.
New!!: Basking shark and Commensalism · See more »
Commercial fishing
Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries.
New!!: Basking shark and Commercial fishing · See more »
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals -- more commonly abbreviated to just the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) or the Bonn Convention and CMS COP is known as Global Wildlife conference—aims to conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species throughout their range.
New!!: Basking shark and Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals · See more »
Cookiecutter shark
The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), also called the cigar shark, is a species of small dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae.
New!!: Basking shark and Cookiecutter shark · See more »
Cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats.
New!!: Basking shark and Cosmopolitan distribution · See more »
Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (Çanakkale Boğazı, translit), also known from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (Ἑλλήσποντος, Hellespontos, literally "Sea of Helle"), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally-significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia, and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.
New!!: Basking shark and Dardanelles · See more »
Deimatic behaviour
Deimatic behaviour, threat display, or startle display in animals means any pattern of behaviour, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape.
New!!: Basking shark and Deimatic behaviour · See more »
Display (zoology)
Display is a form of animal behaviour, connected to sexual selection and survival of the species in various ways.
New!!: Basking shark and Display (zoology) · See more »
Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.
New!!: Basking shark and Dorsal fin · See more »
Egg cell
The egg cell, or ovum (plural ova), is the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms.
New!!: Basking shark and Egg cell · See more »
Endangered Species Act of 1973
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is one of the few dozens of US environmental laws passed in the 1970s, and serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
New!!: Basking shark and Endangered Species Act of 1973 · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Filter feeder · See more »
Fish fin
Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.
New!!: Basking shark and Fish fin · See more »
Fish migration
Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres.
New!!: Basking shark and Fish migration · See more »
Fish scale
The skin of most fishes is covered with scales, which, in many cases, are animal reflectors or produce animal coloration.
New!!: Basking shark and Fish scale · See more »
Fishing trawler
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.
New!!: Basking shark and Fishing trawler · See more »
Gestation
Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside viviparous animals.
New!!: Basking shark and Gestation · See more »
Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extracts dissolved oxygen from water and excretes carbon dioxide.
New!!: Basking shark and Gill · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Gill raker · See more »
Globster
A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.
New!!: Basking shark and Globster · See more »
Great white shark
The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), commonly known as the great white or the white shark, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.
New!!: Basking shark and Great white shark · See more »
Guernsey Post
Guernsey Post is the postal service for the island of Guernsey, Channel Islands.
New!!: Basking shark and Guernsey Post · See more »
Hebrides
The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Suðreyjar) compose a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
New!!: Basking shark and Hebrides · See more »
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.
New!!: Basking shark and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville · See more »
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
New!!: Basking shark and International Union for Conservation of Nature · See more »
Intraspecific competition
Intraspecific competition is an interaction in population ecology, whereby members of the same species compete for limited resources.
New!!: Basking shark and Intraspecific competition · See more »
Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
New!!: Basking shark and Invertebrate · See more »
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
New!!: Basking shark and IUCN Red List · See more »
Johan Ernst Gunnerus
Johan Ernst Gunnerus (26 February 1718 – 23 September 1773) was a Norwegian bishop and botanist.
New!!: Basking shark and Johan Ernst Gunnerus · See more »
Jonathan Couch
Jonathan Couch (15 March 1789 – 13 April 1870) was a British naturalist, the only child of Richard and Philippa Couch, of a family long resident at Polperro, a small fishing village between Looe and Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall.
New!!: Basking shark and Jonathan Couch · See more »
Killer whale
| status.
New!!: Basking shark and Killer whale · See more »
Lamniformes
The Lamniformes (from the Greek word, Lamna "fish of prey") are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks (which may also refer specifically to the family Lamnidae).
New!!: Basking shark and Lamniformes · See more »
Lamprey
Lampreys (sometimes also called, inaccurately, lamprey eels) are an ancient lineage of jawless fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, placed in the superclass Cyclostomata.
New!!: Basking shark and Lamprey · See more »
Laurens Theodorus Gronovius
Laurens Theodoor Gronovius (June 1, 1730 – August 8, 1777), also known as Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius or as Laurens Theodoor Gronow, was a Dutch naturalist born in Leiden.
New!!: Basking shark and Laurens Theodorus Gronovius · See more »
Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
New!!: Basking shark and Leather · See more »
List of postage stamps of Guernsey
The first stamps issued by Guernsey were forced upon the island by the shortage of British stamps in 1941 during the German occupation of the Channel Islands Guernsey Post has issued postage stamps in the Bailiwick of Guernsey since its creation in 1969 when the postal service was separated from the Royal Mail.
New!!: Basking shark and List of postage stamps of Guernsey · See more »
List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
This list of prehistoric cartilaginous fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the class chondrichthyes and are known from the fossil record.
New!!: Basking shark and List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish · See more »
List of threatened sharks
Threatened sharks are those vulnerable to endangerment (extinction) in the near future.
New!!: Basking shark and List of threatened sharks · See more »
Liver
The liver, an organ only found in vertebrates, detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins, and produces biochemicals necessary for digestion.
New!!: Basking shark and Liver · See more »
Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
New!!: Basking shark and Massachusetts · See more »
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
New!!: Basking shark and Mediterranean Sea · See more »
Megamouth shark
The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a species of deepwater shark.
New!!: Basking shark and Megamouth shark · See more »
Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks
The Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks is an international instrument for the conservation of migratory species of sharks.
New!!: Basking shark and Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks · See more »
Ministry of Fisheries (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Fisheries (Māori: Te Tautiaki i nga tini a Tangaroa), also known by its acronym MFish, is a state sector organisation of New Zealand whose role is ensuring the sustainable utilisation of fisheries.
New!!: Basking shark and Ministry of Fisheries (New Zealand) · See more »
Museums Victoria
Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks.
New!!: Basking shark and Museums Victoria · See more »
National Marine Fisheries Service
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a United States federal agency, responsible for the stewardship of national marine resources.
New!!: Basking shark and National Marine Fisheries Service · See more »
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.
New!!: Basking shark and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · See more »
Oil
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").
New!!: Basking shark and Oil · See more »
Oophagy
Oophagy sometimes ovophagy, literally "egg eating", is the practice of embryos feeding on eggs produced by the ovary while still inside the mother's uterus.
New!!: Basking shark and Oophagy · See more »
Ovary
The ovary is an organ found in the female reproductive system that produces an ovum.
New!!: Basking shark and Ovary · See more »
Overexploitation
Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.
New!!: Basking shark and Overexploitation · See more »
Overwintering
Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter season, or pass through that period of the year when "winter" conditions (cold or sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, limited food supplies) make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible.
New!!: Basking shark and Overwintering · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Ovoviviparity · See more »
Pelagic zone
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean, and can be further divided into regions by depth.
New!!: Basking shark and Pelagic zone · See more »
Placenta
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, thermo-regulation, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply; to fight against internal infection; and to produce hormones which support pregnancy.
New!!: Basking shark and Placenta · See more »
Planktivore
A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton.
New!!: Basking shark and Planktivore · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Plankton · See more »
Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and Sauria) or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles (marine Sauropsida), belonging to the Sauropterygia.
New!!: Basking shark and Plesiosauria · See more »
Portland, Victoria
Portland is a small city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state.
New!!: Basking shark and Portland, Victoria · See more »
Sea of Azov
The Sea of Azov (Азо́вское мо́ре, Azóvskoje móre; Азо́вське мо́ре, Azóvśke móre; Azaq deñizi, Азакъ денъизи, ازاق دﻩﯕىزى) is a sea in Eastern Europe.
New!!: Basking shark and Sea of Azov · See more »
Sea of Marmara
The Sea of Marmara (Marmara Denizi), also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, and in the context of classical antiquity as the Propontis is the inland sea, entirely within the borders of Turkey, that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey's Asian and European parts.
New!!: Basking shark and Sea of Marmara · See more »
Sea serpent
A sea serpent or sea dragon is a type of dragon described in various mythologies, most notably Greek (Cetus, Echidna, Hydra, Scylla), Mesopotamian (Tiamat), Hebrew (Leviathan), and Norse (Jörmungandr).
New!!: Basking shark and Sea serpent · See more »
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.
New!!: Basking shark and Shark · See more »
Shark cartilage
Shark cartilage is a dietary supplement made from the dried and powdered cartilage of a shark; that is, from the tough material that composes a shark's skeleton.
New!!: Basking shark and Shark cartilage · See more »
Shark fin soup
Shark fin soup (or shark's fin soup) is a traditional soup or stewed dish found in Chinese cuisine and Vietnamese cuisine.
New!!: Basking shark and Shark fin soup · See more »
Shark finning
Shark finning is the act of removing fins from sharks, often while the shark is alive.
New!!: Basking shark and Shark finning · See more »
Shark liver oil
Shark liver oil is an oil obtained from the livers of sharks.
New!!: Basking shark and Shark liver oil · See more »
Species of concern
In wildlife conservation in the United States, species of concern are species about which there are some concerns regarding status and threats, but insufficient information is available to list the species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
New!!: Basking shark and Species of concern · See more »
Squalene
Squalene is a natural 30-carbon organic compound originally obtained for commercial purposes primarily from shark liver oil (hence its name, as Squalus is a genus of sharks), although plant sources (primarily vegetable oils) are now used as well, including amaranth seed, rice bran, wheat germ, and olives.
New!!: Basking shark and Squalene · See more »
Stronsay Beast
The Stronsay Beast was a large carcass or globster that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay (at the time spelled Stronsa), in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, after a storm on 25 September 1808.
New!!: Basking shark and Stronsay Beast · See more »
Theodore Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.
New!!: Basking shark and Theodore Gill · See more »
Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.
New!!: Basking shark and Traditional Chinese medicine · See more »
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
New!!: Basking shark and Victoria (Australia) · See more »
Vulnerable species
A vulnerable species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as likely to become endangered unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.
New!!: Basking shark and Vulnerable species · See more »
Whale shark
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species.
New!!: Basking shark and Whale shark · See more »
Yolk
Among animals which produce one, the yolk (also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.
New!!: Basking shark and Yolk · See more »
Zooplankton
Zooplankton are heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton.
New!!: Basking shark and Zooplankton · See more »
Zuiyo-maru carcass
The was a basking shark corpse caught by the Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of New Zealand in 1977.
New!!: Basking shark and Zuiyo-maru carcass · See more »
Redirects here:
Baskin shark, Basking Shark, Basking Sharks, Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), Basking sharks, Bone shark, Cetorhinid, Cetorhinidae, Cetorhinus, Cetorhinus blainvillei, Cetorhinus maximus, Cetorhinus normani, Hanovera aurata, Polyprosopus macer, Reremai, Selachus pennantii, Squalus cetaceus, Squalus elephas, Squalus gunnerianus, Squalus homianus, Squalus isodus, Squalus maximus, Squalus pelegrinus, Squalus rashleighanus, Squalus rostratus, Tetroras maccoyi.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_shark
