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).