Galeocerdo cuvier
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....
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818642 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF80FFA798EAF8C0F9C130D0 |
| Summary: | 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). 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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