Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, & Struhsaker 1983
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Lamniformes
- family
- Megachasmidae
- genus
- Megachasma
- species
- Megachasma pelagios
description
Megamouth Shark. To 7.1 m (23.3 ft) TL (Watanabe and Papastamatiou 2019). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (Ebert et al. 2013); Hawai’i (Ebert et al. 2013); southern California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995); off Punta Eugenia, Baja California (Castillo-Géniz et al. 2012); Peru (Kelez et al. 2020). Depth: 8 – 1,000 m (26 – 3,280 ft) (min.: Ebert et al. 2013; max.: Weigmann 2016), and as shallow as 5 m (16 ft) in benthic, coastal waters (Ebert et al. 2013).