Basking shark: Difference between revisions

The life cycle of the Bashing Shark has very limited information available for their reproductive systems. <ref name=flmnh> Billingsley Knickle.[https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/discover/species-profiles/cetorhinus-maximus] "Florida Museum". January 4, 2017 (accessed)</ref>. Only one female with a embryo has even been recorded and she was said to gave given birth to five live young and one still born. <ref name=flmnh/> They ranged in length from 1.5 thru 2 meters or 4.5-6 feet, the thought sis the Basking Shark is a ovoviviparous<ref name=flmnh/>. The gestation period is thought to be three years or greater. While it has also been proposed that the Basking Shark uses a method of embryonic nutrition known as oviphagy <ref name=flmnh/>. This is when the embryo feeds on other unfertilized eggs or other embryos within the uterus<ref name=flmnh/>. The female is thought to reach sexual maturity between the ages of 12 and  16 years of age<ref name=flmnh/>.