Carcharodon carcharias

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Lamniformes; Lamnidae; Carcharodon; Carcharodon carcharias; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Galapagos; Pacific; New Zealand; Milton; Randall; Ramirez; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818592; https://zenodo.org/record/5818592

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. : 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 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"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"]}