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The great white shark was one of the species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, in which it was identified as an amphibian and assigned the scientific name Squalus carcharias, Squalus being the genus that he placed all sharks in. [24] By the 1810s, it was recognized that the shark should be placed ...
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
The longest a great white was held in captivity was at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in September 2004. A young female was kept in an outdoor tank for 198 days before releasing her back into the wild. In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending its program in 2011. [3]
Nicknamed 'Deep Blue,' this great white is almost as long as the 22-foot-long boat the researchers were aboard near Guadalupe, Mexico, nearly 165 miles away from mainland. She is one of the ...
Deep Blue is a female great white shark that is estimated to be 6.1 m (20 ft) long or larger and is now sixty years old. She is believed to be one of the largest ever recorded in history. The shark was first spotted in Mexico by researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla. Deep Blue was featured on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
Carcharodon hubbelli, also known as Hubbell's white shark, is an extinct species of white shark that evolved between 8 and 5 million years ago during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene epochs. This shark is a transitional species , showing intermediate features between the extant great white shark and the fossil white shark, C. hastalis .
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) (great white shark) Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810. Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 (short-fin mako) Isurus paucus Guitart-Manday, 1966 (long-fin mako) Genus Lamna G. Cuvier, 1816. Lamna ditropis C. L. Hubbs & Follett, 1947 (salmon shark) Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (porbeagle shark) Family ...
Comparison of the size of a salmon shark (top) and its relative the great white shark (bottom) The salmon shark generally grows to between 200 and 260 cm (6.6–8.6 ft) in length and weighs up to 220 kg (485 lb). [7] Males appear to reach a maximum size slightly smaller than females.