The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a livebearer: 300 embryos found in one ?megamamma? supreme

1996/07/01 by Shoou‐Jeng Joung, Shoou-Jeng Joung, Che-Tsung Chen +3 · 10 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biology #Ecology #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Fishery #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Nature Conservation #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Whale

paper · doi:10.1007/bf00004997

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