Species Detail - Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Chondrichthyans Of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Cetorhinus maximus
Basking Shark
N/A
Threatened Species: OSPAR Convention
cemax
(Gunnerus, 1765)
cartilagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Species
2
2
2
03/07/2008
11/12/2011
2 February (recorded in 2012)
11 December (recorded in 2011)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Chondrichthyans Of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/259/Species/15533>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)