Image: Stranded Whale Shark
A Whale Shark stranded at Bare Island, La Perouse, Botany Bay, New South Wales, 16 February 1965.
- Photographer:
- Howard Hughes
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Whale Shark
- Scientific name:
- Rhincodon typus
- Family:
- Rhincodontidae
- Order:
- Orectolobiformes
Additional information
Skin and teeth from this fish are registered in the Australian Museum fish collection (IB.7314).
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus, Rhincodontidae,
