Fish
Basking Shark
Second-largest fish; gentle plankton feeder
Family Cetorhinidae
Cetorhinidae is a taxonomic family in the order Lamniformes, class Chondrichthyes. Global Animal Guide profiles one of its members: Basking Shark.
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