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- Title
First visual record of a living basking shark Cetorhinus maximus in the Caribbean Sea.
- Authors
Geelhoed, S.C.V.; Janinhoff, N.; Verdaat, J.P.
- Abstract
The occurrence of basking sharks in the Caribbean Sea is only recently documented by satellite tagging studies, which show that some individuals migrate through the region en route from waters off the east coast of the USA to waters off northeastern South-America. The observation of a basking shark on 7 November 2013 ca. 130 km north-northeast of Aruba during an aerial survey of marine mammals in the waters around the Dutch Leeward Islands is reported. This observation constitutes the first visual record of a living basking shark in the Caribbean.
- Subjects
BASKING shark; MARINE mammal behavior; ANIMAL behavior
- Publication
Caribbean Journal of Science, 2016, Vol 49, Issue 1, p76
- ISSN
0008-6452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18475/cjos.v49i1.a7