Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 15

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.