Great white shark - Carcharodon carcharias
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
| Scientific Name |
Carcharodon carcharias |
| Author |
(Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Taxonomic Rank |
Species |
| Taxonomic # |
159903 |
| Common Names |
English: great white shark
English: white shark
Spanish: tiburón blanco
Spanish: jaquetón de ley
French: requin blanc
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| Current Standing |
valid |
| Taxonomic Parents |
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Euselachii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Lamnidae
Genus: Carcharodon
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Taxonomic data is courtesy of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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| ITIS TSN | 159903 |
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Status - ESA, U.S. FWS
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Status - Red List, IUCN
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VU (Global)
CR (Mediterranean)
CR (Europe) |
| #records (spatial) | 618 |
| #records (non-spatial) | 0 |
| #datasets | 39 |
| Year | 1904 - 2023 |
| Latitude | -50.96 - 50.58 |
| Longitude | -175.99 - 176.96 |
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