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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 ...
Like other known megatooth sharks, the fossils of O. angustidens indicate that it was considerably larger than the extant great white shark, with the largest individuals possibly measuring up to 11–12 metres (36–39 ft) long. [7] [8] A well preserved specimen from New Zealand is estimated at 9.3 m (31 ft) in length. [5]
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The Megalodon was a prehistoric shark, much like a great white ... but 60-feet long. Researchers don't actually believe it was a Megalodon, but they do think it was a giant shark: a great white ...
Carcharodon (meaning "jagged/sharp tooth") [2] is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae, colloquially called the "white sharks." The only extant member is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Extinct species include C. hubbelli and C. hastalis. [3]