GREAT WHITE SHARK
Carcharodon carcharias
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The great white shark is a streamlined swimmer and a ferocious predator with 3,000 teeth at any one time.
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Find out what's fact and what's fiction concerning the world's most notorious shark. See why great whites have more to fear from humans than vice versa.
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Great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758), aka white sharks, white pointers, blue pointers, man-eaters, manila sharks, have, according to E.O. Wilson "...
On the Menu: Great White sharks primarily eat fish, smaller sharks, turtles, dolphins, and pinnipeds such as seals and sea lions. They are apex predators; the only animals known to attack them are other Great Whites, sperm whales and orcas.
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
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''For other uses of the term, see Great White (disambiguation).
The Great White Shark
The white shark is also commonly known as the great white shark. It is a solitary predator that can grow up to 6.6 meters (21 feet) in length.
Great white sharks are the top predators of the ocean. They are usually 3 - 4 m long but can reach up to 6.5 m and weigh 680 kg. Great whites are usually slate-grey with a blotchy line separating the white underbelly.
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Great White Sharks live in all coastal temperate waters, and have been known to occasionally make dives into the deep water of open oceans. They can be found in water as shallow as three feet deep, and as deep as 1280metres.
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
The mighty great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is often mistakenly thought of as the most voracious predator of the seas... More 22 Images 9 Videos ...
Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
The most dangerous of all the sharks. Great white sharks are very aggressive. They can reach at least 6 m (20 ft.) in length and weigh 3 t (3 tn.).
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias):
Best known from the movie Jaws, the great white is a large, heavy-bodied shark, about 20 feet long, with large bladelike teeth.
GREAT WHITE SHARK
CARCHARHINIFORMES
cat sharks, finback catsharks, false catsharks, barbeled houndsharks, houndsharks, weasel sharks, requiem sharks, hammerhead sharks
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Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Blue shark (Prionace glauca)
Longfin mako (Isurus paucus)
Shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus)
Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) ...
great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)
bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas)
killer whales (Orcinus orca)
See Riedman, 1990.
Great white shark (C. carcharias)
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Shortfin mako shark (I. oxyrinchus) Â- Longfin mako shark (I. paucus) ...
The great white shark is known to live mainly on large fish such as tuna, marlin and broadbill swordfish. As well as these fast - swimming species it will also catch sluggish bottom-dwelling skates and rays.
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Sheathtail Bat (Arnhem Sheathtail Bat)
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Discussion The Great White Shark (officially called just the White Shark) feeds on a variety of fish, including other sharks, as well as sea lions, birds, sea otters, sea turtles, carrion, and, occasionally, undigestible garbage.
Also known as the sharp-nosed mackerel shark, it is a member of the mackerel shark family, which also includes the great white shark and the porbeagle. The mako is deep blue above and white below, with a conical head and sharply pointed snout.
Well over half of all lethal attacks on humans over the centuries have come from just three species of sharks: the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) and the bull shark (Carcharinus leucas).
The crocodile's bite force is more than 5,000 pounds per square inch, comparing to just 335 psi for a rottweiler, 690 psi for a large great white shark, or 800 psi for a hyena.
The Western Cape is a much visited region with excellent birding and superlative scenery, the best whale-watching in the world and the possibility of seeing Great White Sharks.
In the fall, hungry great white sharks congregating around the Farallon Islands off central California can make quick work of the juvenile elephant seals approaching or departing the islands. Killer whales also eat elephant seals.
Predators: Orcas, great white sharks, and humans.
Conservation Status
Although the California sea lion is not considered an endangered species, it is included in the protection given in U.S. waters by the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Some types of shark are very rare (like the Great White Shark and the Megamouth Shark) and some are quite common (like the Dogfish Shark and Bull Shark).
Harbor seals are eaten by great white sharks and killer whales.
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Visitors react strongly to this shark! Large in size and with a mouthful of menacing, portruding, spike-like teeth, this shark, like the Great white shark, is the image that most people picture and fear.
Threats
The main natural predator of bottlenose dolphins is the shark, most often bull sharks, tiger sharks, dusky sharks and great white sharks.
(Mustelus henlei), (Caracharodon carcharias), Caracharodon carcharias, Diamond Ray (Dasyatis brevis), Epaulette Shark (Hemiscymum) Hemiscyllidae, Freshwater Stingray (Paratrygon) Dasyatidae, Giant Shovelnose Ray (Rhynobatos typus), Great White Shark, ...
 See also: White Shark, Shark, Whale, Tiger, Turtle
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