basking shark

Summary

basking shark is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.18% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,077 views/month, #348 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• basking shark's image is recorded as Cetorhinus maximus by greg skomal.JPG^[3].
• basking shark's image is recorded as Basking Shark.jpg^[4].
• basking shark's image is recorded as 202411 Cetorhinus maximus.svg^[5].
• basking shark's instance of is recorded as taxon^[6].
• basking shark's taxon rank is recorded as species^[7].
• basking shark's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Endangered status^[8].
• basking shark's parent taxon is recorded as Cetorhinus^[9].
• basking shark's taxon range map image is recorded as Cypron-Range Cetorhinus maximus.svg^[10].
• basking shark's taxon name is recorded as Cetorhinus maximus^[11].
• basking shark's GND ID is recorded as 4602960-6^[12].
• basking shark's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85012129^[13].
• basking shark's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 137377241^[14].
• basking shark's Commons category is recorded as Cetorhinus maximus^[15].
• basking shark's IUCN taxon ID is recorded as 4292^[16].
• basking shark's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03mzt2^[17].
• basking shark's UNII is recorded as 7V42VPX14U^[18].
• basking shark's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 57982^[19].
• basking shark's ITIS TSN is recorded as 159907^[20].
• basking shark's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 225080^[21].
• basking shark's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 305803^[22].
• basking shark's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2420726^[23].
• basking shark's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 105837^[24].
• basking shark's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cetorhinus maximus^[25].
• basking shark's Commons gallery is recorded as Cetorhinus maximus^[26].
• basking shark's FishBase species ID is recorded as 90^[27].

Why It Matters

basking shark ranks in the top 0.18% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,077 views/month, #348 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]