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The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a livebearer: 300 embryos found in one ‘megamamma’ supreme

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  1. Department of Fishery Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan, 20224, Republic of China

    Shoou-Jeng Joung & Che-Tsung Chen

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, U.S.A.

    Eugenie Clark

  3. Okinawa Expo Aquarium, Motobu-Cho, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

    Senzo Uchida

  4. R.O.C. Game Fish Association, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    William Y. P. Huang

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Joung, SJ., Chen, CT., Clark, E. et al. The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a livebearer: 300 embryos found in one ‘megamamma’ supreme. Environ Biol Fish 46, 219–223 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00004997

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Key words

  • Rhincodontidae
  • Sizes of embryos
  • Egg cases
  • Reproductive anatomy
  • Obligate lecithotrophic livebearer
  • Ovoviviparity
  • Lecithotrophic viviparity
  • Elasmobranch