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Galeocerdo cuvier
Description
Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822).
Tiger Shark. To 7.4 m (24.4 ft) TL (Randall 1992). Circumglobal in tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu Island, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); sighting (unverifiable) at Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985); southern California to Peru (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996). Coastal pelagic; marine and brackish waters (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); depth: surface and intertidal to 1,136 m (3,726 ft) (Werry et al. 2014). Tiger sharks living in the Atlantic may represent a separate species (Naylor et al. 2012).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Galeocerdo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Peron & Lesueur
- Species
- cuvier
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Galeocerdo cuvier (Peron, 1822) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Randall, J. E. (1992) Review of the biology of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 43, 21 - 31.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Karinen, J. F., Wing, B. L. & Straty, R. R. (1985) Records and sightings of fish and invertebrates in the eastern Gulf of Alaska and oceanic phenonmenon related to the 1983 El Nino event. In: Wooster, W. S. & Fluherty, D. L. (Eds.), El Nino North: Nino Effects in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Washington Sea Grant Program, University of Washington, Seattle.
- 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.
- Galvan-Magana, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A., Rodriguez-Romero, J., Perez-Espana, H. & Chavez-Ramos, H. (1996) Systematic list of the fishes from Cerralvo Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 22, 295 - 311.
- Werry, J. M., Planes, S., Berumen, M. L., Lee, K. A., Braun, C. D. & Clua, E. (2014) Reef-fidelity and migration of Tiger Sharks, Galeocerdo cuvier, across the Coral Sea. PLOS ONE, 9, e 83249. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0083249
- Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 754.1