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 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 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.