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Kingdom :  ANIMALIA
Phylum :  CHORDATA
Class :  ELASMOBRANCHII
Order :  ORECTOLOBIFORMES
Family :  RHINCODONTIDAE
Genus :  Rhincodon
Taxon : Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 Comment on this entry
Distribution : American Samoa , Angola , Anguilla , Antigua and Barbuda , Argentina , Aruba , Australia , Bahamas , Bahrain , Bangladesh , Barbados , Belize , Benin , Bermuda , Brazil , British Indian Ocean Territory , British Virgin Islands , Brunei Darussalam , Cambodia , Cameroon , Cape Verde , Cayman Islands , Chile , China , Christmas Island , Colombia , Comoros , Congo , Cook Islands , Costa Rica , Côte d'Ivoire , Cuba , Democratic People's Republic of Korea , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Djibouti , Dominica , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , Egypt , El Salvador , Equatorial Guinea , Eritrea , Fiji , France , French Guiana , French Polynesia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Grenada , Guadeloupe , Guam , Guatemala , Guinea , Guinea Bissau , Guyana , Haiti , Honduras , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Iran (Islamic Republic of) , Iraq , Israel , Jamaica , Japan , Jordan , Kenya , Kiribati , Kuwait , Liberia , Macao , Madagascar , Malaysia , Maldives , Marshall Islands , Martinique , Mauritania , Mauritius , Mexico , Micronesia (Federated States of) , Montserrat , Morocco , Mozambique , Myanmar , Namibia , Nauru , Netherlands Antilles , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Nicaragua , Nigeria , Niue , Northern Mariana Islands , Oman , Pakistan , Palau , Panama , Papua New Guinea , Peru , Philippines , Pitcairn , Portugal , Puerto Rico , Qatar , Republic of Korea , Réunion , Saint Helena , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , Samoa , São Tomé and Principe , Saudi Arabia , Senegal , Seychelles , Sierra Leone , Singapore , Solomon Islands , Somalia , South Africa , Spain , Sri Lanka , Sudan , Suriname , Taiwan, Province of China , Thailand , Timor-Leste , Togo , Tokelau , Tonga , Trinidad and Tobago , Turks and Caicos Islands , Tuvalu , United Arab Emirates , United Republic of Tanzania , United States Minor Outlying Islands , United States of America , United States Virgin Islands , Uruguay , Vanuatu , Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) , Viet Nam , Wallis and Futuna Islands , Yemen
 
Distribution is recorded to the level of country or, in some instances, to a sub-country level of Biological Recording Unit (BRU). This recognises areas to the regional/state level of larger countries, as well as larger islands of particular biological importance. If distribution data are not complete, or not known to be complete, this is indicated. Global distribution maps are available for each taxon.

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Aquatic Distribution Atlantic - eastern central, southeast, southwest, western central,
Indian Ocean - eastern, western,
Pacific - eastern central, northwest, southeast, southwest, western central
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