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Whale shark, Movable Parts, Museum Quality Plastic Replica 6" - F088B382
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Whale shark, Movable Parts, Museum Quality Plastic Replica 6" - F088B382This Beautiful Museum Quality Whale Shark Toy Replica with Movalble, Adjustable Parts. Move the tail in a swimming motion, and open and close the jaws!
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 12.65 m (41.5 ft) and a weight of about 21.5 t (47,000 lb). The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate. It is the sole member of the genus Rhincodon and the only extant member of the family Rhincodontidae which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. Before 1984 it was classified as Rhiniodon into Rhinodontidae. The species originated about 60 million years ago.