- The
great white shark (Carcharodon
carcharias), also
known as the
white shark,
white pointer, or
simply great white, is a
species of
large mackerel shark...
- include:
Carcharias tenuiplicatus Carcharias holmdelensis Maastrichtian Carcharias samhammeri Late
Cretaceous Carcharias heathi Late
Cretaceous Carcharias acutissima...
- shark's
description as
Carcharias taurus by
Constantine Rafinesque came from a
specimen caught off the
coast of Sicily.
Carcharias taurus means "bull shark"...
-
shark was
first described by
French zoologist Achille Valenciennes as
Carcharias (Prionodon)
limbatus in
Johannes Müller and
Friedrich Henle's 1839 Systematische...
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shark (Carcharodon
carcharias). The
extant species was
preceded by a
number of
fossil (extinct)
species including C.
hubbelli and
C. hastalis. The first...
- stereo-camera
system enabled an ****essment of the
behavioral responses of
C.
carcharias when
encountering a non-lethal
electric field many
times stronger than...
-
appeared in
literature as
Negaprion fronto and
Carcharias fronto (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882),
Carcharias brevirostris (Gunther, 1870), and Carcharhinus...
- sand-shark, and
water crocodile. The
crocodile shark was
first described as
Carcharias kamoharai in a 1936
issue of
Zoological Magazine (Tokyo) by ichthyologist...
-
mangrove forests. It was
collected in the 19th
century and
described as
Carcharias siamensis by
Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner, in
Annalen des...
- They do not
engage in
sibling cannibalism unlike the sand
tiger shark (
Carcharias taurus). The four to 18
surviving young are born live in the late winter...