Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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Galeocerdo cuvier
(Péron & Lesueur, 1822)
.
Tiger Shark
. To
7.4 m
(
24.4 ft
) TL (
Randall 1992
). Circumglobal in tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu Island,
Japan
(Yoshino and Aonuma in
Nakabo 2002
); sighting (unverifiable) at Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska (
Karinen
et al.
1985
); southern California to Peru (
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
), including Islas Galápagos (
Grove and Lavenberg 1997
), and Gulf of California (
Galván-Magaña
et al.
1996
). Coastal pelagic; marine and brackish waters (Yoshino and Aonuma in
Nakabo 2002
); depth: surface and intertidal to
1,136 m
(
3,726 ft
) (
Werry
et al.
2014
). Tiger sharks living in the Atlantic may represent a separate species (
Naylor
et al.
2012
).