...David E. Cade; J. Jacob Levenson; Robert Cooper; Rafael de la Parra; D. Harry Webb; Alistair D. M. Dove ABSTRACT Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) – the largest extant fish species – reside in tropical environments, making them an exception to the general rule that animal size increases with latitude...

... speeds from neonatal whale sharks to predict their ability to filter different sized prey items from the water column. Four neonatal whale sharks, Rhincodon typus (Smith 1828), were obtained from the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Institute of Oceanography (La Jolla, CA, USA). We...