Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 . Whale Shark . Reliable to at least 17.0 m ( 55.8 ft ) (Weigman 2016), probable to 20.0 m ( 65.6 ft ) TL ( Chen et al. 1997 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean at least as far northward as just north of Hokkaido Island, Japan ( Tomita et al. 2014 ); Patrick’s Point ( 41°10’N , 124°15’W ), northern California to northern Chile and Islas Galápagos ( Ebert 2003 ). Pelagic; depth: descends to in excess of 1,928 m ( 6,324 ft ) ( Tyminski et al. 2015 ).