megamouth shark
megachasma pelagios latin

The megamouth shark has luminous organs called photophores around its mouth.

One of the very few known specimens of the megamouth shark was caught off Dana Point in 1990.

Megamouth shark has a distinctive large mouth, very short snout and is broadly rounded in dorsal view.

November 15 - The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii.

In 1995 he was put in charge of dissecting and preparing the 7th specimen of the very rare megamouth shark.

As of 2006, there have only been 36 findings of megamouth sharks in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.

The Megamouth shark filter-feeds, eating tiny organisms, including zooplankton (like tiny crustaceans) and phytoplankton.

The Megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a large, slow-swimming, timid shark that was only discovered in 1976.

Sun Star Cagayan de Oro "Megamouth shark found dead in Oro"

The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark, and the smallest of the three filter-feeding sharks.

Elizaga, Elson "Megamouth Shark in Cagayan de Oro"

A rare megamouth shark species was found on shore and the island is the only habitat for the threatened toad, Bufo valhallae (genus Bufo).

The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was placed as the next-closest relative to these taxa, though the phylogenetic position of that species has yet to be resolved with confidence.

The whale shark is a filter feeder - one of only three known filter feeding shark species (along with the basking shark and the megamouth shark).

More recent phylogenetic analyses, based on mitochondrial DNA, have suggested that the crocodile shark is closely related to either the megamouth shark or the sand sharks (Odontaspididae).

Unlike the megamouth shark and whale shark, the basking shark does not appear to actively seek quarry, but it does possess large olfactory bulbs that may guide it.

It relies only on the water that it pushes through its gills by swimming; the megamouth shark and whale shark can suck or pump water through their gills.

A megamouth shark was found on a Perth beach in 1988; very little is known about this species, but this discovery may indicate the presence of the species in Australian coastal waters.

It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white shark, as well as more unusual representatives, such as the goblin shark and the megamouth shark.

Such widespread travels presented the opportunity for first-hand interaction with such exotic species as aardwolves, echidnas, and megamouth sharks (these and other creatures later appeared in his syndicated newspaper column, "Animal Journal").

The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) 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.

The following sites in Le Flore County are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: The 'megamouth shark', 'Megachasma pelagios', is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark.

The Megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a large, slow-swimming, timid shark that was only discovered in 1976.

The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark, and the smallest of the three filter-feeding sharks.

The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was placed as the next-closest relative to these taxa, though the phylogenetic position of that species has yet to be resolved with confidence.