Megamouth shark
Megachasma pelagios
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Fishfilter-feeder
The megamouth shark is a deepwater filter-feeder, rarely spotted by humans. With its wide, rubbery-lipped mouth, it cruises the ocean collecting tiny prey like krill and jellyfish. It’s the smallest of the three known plankton-eating sharks.
- Grows to 4–5.5 meters (13–18 feet) long.
- Only 296 recorded sightings since its discovery in 1976.
- Swims with its mouth open to scoop up plankton.
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- Classification
- Fish
- Scientific name
- Megachasma pelagios
- Habitat
- Ocean
- Regions in this directory
- Worldwide
- Diet
- filter-feeder
- Relative size
- large
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern (LC)
