Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Issues Paper
Department of the Environment and Heritage, May 2005
ISBN 0 6425 5082 4
Appendix 1
Whale Shark Range States
| American Samoa | Gambia | Nigeria |
| Angola | Ghana | Niue |
| Anguilla | Grenada | Northern Mariana Islands |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Guadeloupe | Oman |
| Aruba | Guam | Pakistan |
| Australia | Guatemala | Panama |
| Bahamas | Guinea | Papua New Guinea |
| Bahrain | Guinea-Bissau | Peru |
| Bangladesh? | Guyana | Philippines |
| Barbados | Haiti | Portugal |
| Belize | Honduras | Puerto Rico |
| Benin | Hong Kong | Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
| Bermuda | India | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Brazil | Indonesia | |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Sao Tomé and Principe |
| Iraq | Saudi Arabia | |
| Brunei Darussalam | Israel | Senegal |
| Cambodia | Jamaica | Seychelles |
| Cameroon | Japan | Singapore |
| Cape Verde | Jordan | Somalia |
| Cayman Islands | Kenya | South Africa |
| Chile | Kiribati | Sri Lanka |
| China | Korea, Republic of | Sudan |
| Christmas Island | Kuwait | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Colombia | Liberia | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Comoros | Macao | Thailand |
| Congo | Madagascar | Timor-Leste |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | Malaysia | Togo |
| Maldives | Tokelau | |
| Cook Islands | Marshall Islands | Tonga |
| Costa Rica (Cocos I.) | Martinique | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Cuba | Mauritania | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| Côte d'Ivoire | Mauritius | Tuvalu |
| Djibouti | Mexico | United Arab Emirates |
| Dominica | Micronesia, Federated States of | United States (Hawaiian Is.) |
| Dominican Republic | United States Minor Outlying Islands (Johnston I.; Wake Is.) | |
| Ecuador (Galápagos) | Montserrat | |
| Egypt | Mozambique | |
| El Salvador | Myanmar | Vanuatu |
| Equatorial Guinea | Namibia | Venezuela |
| Eritrea | Nauru | Viet Nam |
| Fiji | Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao) | Virgin Islands, British |
| French Guiana | New Caledonia | Virgin Islands, U.S. |
| French Polynesia (Marquesas; Tuamotu Is.) | New Zealand | Wallis and Futuna Islands |
| Gabon | Nicaragua | Yemen |
Source: IUCN Redlist 2003 (http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=19488)