NOUN
- large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton
How To Use Rhincodon typus In A Sentence
- Leviathan among sharks, a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) gains on its small prey in the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.
- Despite this distinctive profile, scientists know very little about Rhincodon typus—the whale shark.