typus, Rhincodon Smith [A.] 1828:2 [South African Commercial Advertiser v. 3 (no. 145); ref. 12603] Table Bay, South Africa, southeastern Atlantic. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9855 (stuffed, mounted). Type catalog: Bertin 1939:67 [ref. 20739]. Also appeared as Rhiniodon typus in Smith 1829:443 [ref. 4976]. The genus Rhincodon was conserved over Rhiniodon (Opinion 1278). •Valid as Rhiniodon typus (Smith 1828) -- (Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:221 [ref. 36138], Bishop & Abdul-Ghaffar 1993:939 [ref. 36611], Kukuev 1996:279 [ref. 24643], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:56 [ref. 27969]). •Valid as Rhincodon typus Smith 1828 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:25 [ref. 9277], Compagno 1984:210 [ref. 6474], Dor 1984:4 [ref. 29757], Nakaya & Shirai in Masuda et al. 1984:8 [ref. 6441], Wolfson 1986:208 [ref. 6150], Bass 1986:66 [ref. 19532], Robins & Ray 1986:21 [ref. 23100], Allen & Swainston 1988:20 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:94 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:12 [ref. 14125], Randall et al. 1990:15 [ref. 15987], Springer 1990:80 [ref. 19315], Boschung 1992:19 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:183 [ref. 23827], Allen & Robertson 1994:19 [ref. 22193], Gomon et al. 1994:119 [ref. 22532], Last & Stevens 1994:142 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:2 [ref. 25356], Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:710 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:21 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:40 [ref. 23977], Santos et al. 1997:7 [ref. 23531], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:53 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:15 [ref. 24952], Cheng & Zhou 1997:24 [ref. 26385] dated 1829, Randall et al. 1997:15 [ref. 25919], Compagno 1998:1263 [ref. 23785], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:47 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:34 [ref. 24555], Aguilera 1998:45 [ref. 24221], Myers 1999:32 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:13 [ref. 24106], Morón et al. 1999:144 [ref. 24253], Cervigón & Alcalá 1999:30 [ref. 24490], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:109 [ref. 25013], Compagno 1999:477 [ref. 25589], Allen 2000:83 [ref. 37268], Musick et al. 2000:8 [ref. 24959], Nakabo 2000:121 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:578 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:86 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Goto 2001:82 [ref. 25912], Compagno 2001:203 [ref. 26323], Soto 2001:63, 67 [ref. 26637], Nakabo 2002:121 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:50, 470 [ref. 26218], Gadig & Gomes in Menezes et al. 2003:21 [ref. 27192], Compagno 2003:442 [ref. 26984], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S91 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:609 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:67 [ref. 27576], Smith et al. 2003:5 [ref. 27621], Randall et al. 2004:5 [ref. 27624], Espinosa Pérez et al. 2004:26 [ref. 27705] dated 1829, Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:22 [ref. 27735], Nelson et al. 2004:51 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:55 [ref. 28072], Compagno et al. 2005:23 [ref. 29145], Love et al. 2005:4 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:87 [ref. 28379], Randall et al. 2005:117 [ref. 28745], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Hoese & Gates 2006:130 [ref. 28997], Randall 2007:29 [ref. 30952], White 2008:51 [ref. 30617], Béarez & Séret 2009:144 [ref. 36646], Fricke et al. 2009:11 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:10 [ref. 30426], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:187 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:68 [ref. 31256], Last el al. 2010:60 [ref. 32461], Fricke et al. 2011:344 [ref. 31242], de la Parra Venegas et al. 2011:1 [ref. 31281], Castro 2011:194 [ref. 31457], Andrades et al. 2012:2092 [ref. 41589], Moore et al. 2012:5 [ref. 31771], Allen & Erdmann 2012:53 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:49 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:114 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:15 [ref. 32988], Ebert et al. 2013:307 [ref. 33045], Wirtz et al. 2014:2 [ref. 33516], Boer et al. 2015:3 [ref. 41464], Dyldin 2015:44 [ref. 34524], Pinheiro et al. 2015:2 [ref. 34324], Psomadakis et al. 2015:77 [ref. 34104], Roberts 2015:111 [ref. 34220], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:71 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:12 [ref. 34211], Compagno 2016:1253 [ref. 34544], Fourriére et al. 2016:452 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:605 [ref. 34923], Koeda et al. 2016:4 [ref. 35333], Kells et al. 2016:62 [ref. 35888], Ebert et al. 2017:52 [ref. 35618], Ali et al. 2018:300 [ref. 36183], Biscoito et al. 2018:462 [ref. 37562], Dyldin & Orlov 2018:162 [ref. 35920], Ehemann et al. 2018:20 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:8 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:10 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:295 [ref. 36178], Spier et al. 2018:4 [ref. 36103], White & Ko'ou 2018:22 [ref. 35922], White et al. 2018:82 [ref. 35860], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:53 [ref. 37302], Brown et al. 2019:152 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:27 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:17 [ref. 37250], Ehemann et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 36861], Eagderi et al. 2019:14 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:37 [ref. 36673], Reiner 2019:27 [ref. 38139], Zajonz et al. 2019:58 [ref. 36871], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:241 [ref. 37881], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 1 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:35 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:167 [ref. 37272], Robertson et al. 2020:161 [ref. 38098], Sonoyama et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37637], Walker et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37499], Bessudo et al. 2021:[3] 1771 [ref. 39107], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:55 [ref. 38158], Ebert et al. 2021:38 [ref. 38234], González-Acosta et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38361], Haroon & Kibria 2021:46 [ref. 39241], Love et al. 2021:13 [ref. 39279], Turan et al. 2021:3 [ref. 38917], Blanco-Parra & Niño-Torres 2022:Correction, p. 3 [ref. 38986], Ebert 2022:462 [ref. 39662], Fermon et al. 2022:91 [ref. 39448], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:10 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:15 [ref. 41326], Hsu et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39567], Zajonz et al. 2022:4 [ref. 40522], Carvalho-Filho 2023:295 [ref. 40480], Castillo Domínguez et al. 2023:4 [ref. 40663], Page et al. 2023:37 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:41 [ref. 40816], Spinelli & García de los Ríos y los Huertos in Fortič et al. 2023:194 [ref. 40465], Allen & Erdmann 2024:55 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:60 [ref. 41622], Gadig et al. 2024:18 [ref. 40775]). Current status: Valid as Rhincodon typus Smith 1828. Rhincodontidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea, East China sea, Sea of Japan, Gulf of California/Mexico). IUCN (2021): Endangered. Habitat: marine.