Basking shark  (Cetorhinus maximus)

Facts

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Lamniformes
Family Cetorhinidae
Genus Cetorhinus (1)
Size Length: 6.7 - 8.8 m (2)
Weight 6 tonnes (3)

Status

Classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List (1), and listed on Appendix II of CITES (4) and Appendices I and II of the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) (5).