Species Detail - Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Chondrichthyans Of Ireland Restricted Records".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Cetorhinus maximus
Basking Shark
NBNSYS0000040787
UnverifiedUnverified
Threatened Species: OSPAR Convention
cemax
(Gunnerus, 1765)
cartilagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Species
533
45
28
15/05/2001
09/08/2013
2 February (recorded in 2012)
11 December (recorded in 2011)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Chondrichthyans Of Ireland Restricted Records, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus), accessed 12 May 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/263/Species/15533>