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Cetorhinus maximus
Liver Liv"er, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. ? fat, E. live, v.] (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates. Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates. Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering. Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar. Liver brown, Liver color, the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown. Liver shark (Zo["o]l.), a very large shark (Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish
Cetorhinus maximus
Basking shark Bask"ing shark` (Zo["o]l.) One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

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- first described the species as Cetorhinus maximus, from a specimen found in Norway, naming it. The genus name Cetorhinus comes from the Gr**** ketos, meaning...
- Cetorhinus huddlestoni is an extinct species of basking shark that lived in the Middle miocene period. Its fossils consist of juvenile specimens, represented...
- 1862 Genus Cetorhinus Blainville, 1816 Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) (basking shark) [5] †Cetorhinus huddlestoni (Welton, 2014) †Cetorhinus piersoni...
- commonly known as basking sharks. It includes the extant basking shark, Cetorhinus, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius. Gill, T.N....
- sunfishes Mola (fish), or sunfish Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, common names include sun-fish Opah, a family of sal****er fish...
- 21, 1903) page 125 Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2023). FishBase. Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species...
- cartilaginous fish, only the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and the giant manta ray (Manta birostris), in that order, are...
- the dentition, gill rakers and vertebrae of the recent basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science...
- Technical paper 389, FAO, Rome. ISBN 92-5-104361-2. Fowler, S.L. (2005). "Cetorhinus maximus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2005: e.T4292A10763893...
- size only behind the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), and the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). This makes...