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Scientific Name: Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828
English Name: Whale Shark
Local/Bangla Name: Timi hangor (তিমি হাঙ্গর), Bagha Hangor (বাঘা হাঙ্গর)
Whale Shark - Timi hangor (তিমি হাঙ্গর), Bagha Hangor (বাঘা হাঙ্গর) - Rhincodon typus - Type: Shark

Photo: Uddin et al. (2022)

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Elasmobranchii
Order: Orectolobiformes
Family: Rhincodontidae
Description:
A huge, filter-feeding, blunt-headed shark with a distinct checkerboard pattern of yellow or white spots, on grey, bluish or blue-grey to green-brown back, white or yellowish underside, with horizontal and vertical stripes on back and sides of body; head broad and flat; snout short; mouth almost terminal, huge and transverse in front of eyes; prominent ridges on body, lowest terminating in a keel on caudal peduncle; nostrils with rudimentary barbels; long nasoral grooves; spiracles close to and larger than eyes; 5 exceptionally large gill openings, the fifth behind pectoral fin.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Pelagic often near the surface down to 980m in Bay of Bengal.
Environment:
Marine
Main References:

Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.

Other References:

Rahman AKA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondoker M (2009) Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 485 p.

Thompson PM, Islam MA (Eds.) (2010) Environmental Profile of St. Martin’s Island, United Nations Development Programme, Dhaka, 150 p

Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.

Haque AB, Hasan SJ, Hossain N, Khan S, Rahman S, Karim E (2023) Elasmobranch Fishery in Bangladesh (ed. Yahia Mahmud), Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, 144 p.

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