Rhincodontidae
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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 and Eocene as well.
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Vinony files it under Rhincodontidae, Shark families and Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Orectolobiformes
- Image
- Rhincodon typus fgbnms.jpg
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- taxon name
- Rhincodontidae
- taxon rank
- family
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Rhincodontidae
- Commons category
- Rhincodontidae
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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 and Eocene as well.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhincodontidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.