Basking shark
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| phylum | Chordata | The basking shark is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and the second of three plankton-eating sharks, the other two being the whale shark and megamouth shark. It is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world's temperate oceans. It is a slow moving filter feeder and has anatomical adaptations to filter feeding, such as a greatly enlarged mouth and highly developed gill rakers. The shape of its snout is conical and the gill slits extend around the top and bottom of its head.
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| class | Chondrichthyes | |
| order | Lamniformes | |
| family | Cetorhinidae | |
| genus | Cetorhinus | |
| species | C. maximus |
