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Title: Basking Shark In Dense Zooplankton. Coll, UK.
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A basking shark (Ceterhinus maximus) feeding at the surface in a thick soup of zooplankton (mainly copepods: Calanus finmarchicus). Photographed in June. Cairns Of Coll, Isle of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. British Isles. North East Atlantic Ocean
- basking shark: Ceterhinus maximus
- Basking Sharks: Cetorhinidae
- British Isles
- Cartilaginous Fishes: Chondrichthyes
- Elasmobranchs: Elasmobranchii
- Fishes
- Great Britain
- Inner Hebrides
- Island of Coll
- Mackerel Sharks: Lamniformes
- Marine Life
- Scotland
- Sharks
- temperate
- United Kingdom
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