Carcharodon carcharias

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Lamniformes; Lamnidae; Carcharodon; Carcharodon carcharias; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818593; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF9FFFBB98EAFA39FEB336BB

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