Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Lamniformes
- family
- Lamnidae
- genus
- Carcharodon
- species
- Carcharodon carcharias
description
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.