Abstract
This paper is the first report with morphometric measurements in the Eastern Tropical Pacific of a deceased 5.48 m juvenile whale shark Rhincodon typus, from a rare stranding in La Paz Bay in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Biological measurements and age estimation are provided by the analysis of photographs and growth in rings from vertebrae.
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Whitehead, D., Galván-Magaña, F., Soto-López, K., Juaristi-Videgaray, D., Cervantes-Gutiérrez, F., & Becerril-García, E. E. (2019). First description of a deceased juvenile whale shark Rhincodon typus in la paz bay, mexico with comments on morphometry and age estimates. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 47(3), 575–579. https://doi.org/10.3856/vol47-issue3-fulltext-19
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