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Rhincodontidae
Family of sharks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhincodontidae is a shark family which includes the whale shark, the sole extant member and the largest living fish. A single extinct genus, Palaeorhincodon, is known from the Paleocene as well.[1]
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Rhincodontidae | |
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Whale shark feeding | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Orectolobiformes |
Family: | Rhincodontidae J. P. Müller and Henle, 1839 |
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