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Marine Creature of the Month Famous Fish June Made on Canva Destiny the Whale Shark The votes are in! A landslide win for Destiny the whale shark! Kingdom: Animalia Class: Chondrichthyes Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) Picture from Scientific American WHAT IS DESTINY? Destiny is a whale shark. Whale sharks cause some confusion: are they a whale or shark? They are sharks with a whale's diet. Simple! Destiny belongs to the largest species of shark and one of three which do not adhere to a typical "shark diet". The other two are basking sharks and megamouth sharks, if you are interested. More on this later. They belong to the family carpet shark which included species such as wobbegongs, nurse sharks, and epaulette sharks. I could honestly get super distracted talking about all these sharks - but some were featured on Sharks @ 7 & 3/4 so go watch those videos! Whale sharks, on average, grow to be around 9.8m (32ft) but there has been a confirmed case of one bein...

Marine Creature of the Month Famous Fish: Dory Photo from Wikipedia Kingdom: Animalia Class: Actinopterygii Conservation Status: Least Concern (LE) WHAT IS DORY? Dory, from Finding Dory , is commonly known as a Regal Blue Tang. She is a surgeonfish, indigenous to the Indo-Pacific ocean. They are flat fish, with a circular shaped body that ends in a pointed snout, the average adult blue tang growing to 30cm (12in). They have the distinct blue and black colouring, with more yellows coming through in the central Indian ocean populations. With their home being in the Indo-Pacific ocean, blue tangs are found in reefs around many countries, such as Japan, Indonesia, and the Great Barrier Reef around Australia. They are a common and abundant fish in these areas. They live in either pairs or small groups between eight and fourteen. The males are generally bigger than the females, on average an adult blue tang weighs only 600g (21oz). Photo from Live Sci...