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Definition of Cetorhinus maximus

Cetorhinus maximus
Liver Liv"er, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. ? fat, E. live, v.] (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates. Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates. Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering. Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar. Liver brown, Liver color, the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown. Liver shark (Zo["o]l.), a very large shark (Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish
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Basking shark Bask"ing shark` (Zo["o]l.) One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

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- The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species...
- They are believed to be the same size as the current basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). It was discovered in the Shark tooth Formation by Welton in 2013...
- dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin...
- 1862 Genus Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816 Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) (basking shark) [4] †Cetorhinus huddlestoni (Welton, 2014) †Cetorhinus piersoni...
- fish, only the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and the giant manta ray (Manta birostris), in that order, are on...
- similarity to the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) or the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). The tail fin would have been crescent-shaped, the anal fin and second...
- C. maximus may refer to: Cetorhinus maximus, the basking shark, the second largest living shark species Clianthus maximus, the "kaka beak", a shrub native...
- dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin...
- grow quite large. The largest living species is the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) of the world's northern temperate oceans, also the second largest...
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cetorhinus maximus". FishBase. March 2013 version. Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) FAO, Species Fact Sheet...