Image: A Whale Shark at Great Detached Reef.
Description
A Whale Shark at a depth of 2 m, Great Detached Reef, Great Barrier Reef, northern Queensland, January 1993. This fish was photographed during the FNQ field trip.
- Photographer:
- Jeff Leis
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Whale Shark
- Scientific name:
- Rhincodon typus
- Family:
- Rhincodontidae
- Order:
- Orectolobiformes
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