Carcharodon carcharias
Description
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758).
White Shark. To about 6 m (19.5 ft) TL (Randall 1987); possibly to 6.4 m (21.1 ft) TL (Compagno 2001). Circumglobal, mostly amphitemperate; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan (Dolganov 2012); northwest Bering Sea (59°56’N, 178°56’ W) and Gulf of Alaska (60°17’N, 145°35’W) (Martin 2004) to Gulf of California to Nayarit, Mexican Pacific Ocean (Becerril-García et al. 2019); Panama to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic, coastal and offshore over island and continental shelves; depth: intertidal to 1,200 m (3,936 ft) (Francis et al. 2012). Francis et al. (2012) report that the 1,280 m depth listed in Bigelow and Schroeder (1948) is erroneous.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lamnidae
- Genus
- Carcharodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- carcharias
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Randall, J. E. (1987) Refutation of lengths of 11.3, 9.0, and 6.4 m attributed to the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. California Fish and Game, 73, 163 - 168.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (2001) FAO Species Catalog. Sharks of the World. Volume 2. Bullhead, Mackerel and Carpet Sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes, and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, No. 1, FAO, Rome.
- Dolganov, V. N. (2012) The capture of a great white shark Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus, 1758 (Carcharodontidae) in Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan). Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 38, 88 - 90.
- Martin, R. A. (2004) Northerly distribution of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in the eastern Pacific Ocean and relation to ENSO events. Marine Fisheries Review 66 (1), 16 - 26.
- Becerril-Garcia, E. E., Hoyos-Padilla, E. M., Petatan-Ramirez, D. & Galvan-Magana, F. (2019) Southernmost record of the white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) in the Mexican Pacific. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 47, 190 - 193. https: // doi. org / 10.3856 / vol 47 - issue 1 - fulltext- 22
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Francis, M. P., Duffy, C. A., Bonfil, R. & Manning, M. J. (2012) The third dimension - vertical habitat use by white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in New Zealand and in oceanic and tropical waters of the southwest Pacific Ocean. In: Domeier, M. L. (Ed.), Global Perspectives on the Biology and Life History of the Great White Shark. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 319 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.1201 / b 11532 - 27