A member of the family Cetorhinidae, which includes the basking shark and related large filter-feeding sharks.
From Modern Latin Cetorhinidae, combining Greek 'ketos' (whale) and 'rhis' (nose), since early taxonomists thought the shark's snout resembled a whale's. The suffix '-id' indicates a member of this family.
Basking sharks, the only living cetorhinids, are the second-largest fish in the world but eat only tiny plankton—imagine a creature the size of a school bus surviving on microscopic food!
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