Carcharodon Smith

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 312

Genus Carcharodon Smith in Müller & Henle, 1838a

Great White Sharks / ǺƦḛé

Carcharodon Smith in Müller & Henle, 1838a: 37. Type species: Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent monotypy through Carcharias lamia Rafinesque, 1810a .

Carcharodon carcharias ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Great White Shark / ǺƦḛ

Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, 1758: 235 . Holotype unknown, type locality: “Europa”.

Local synonymy: Carcharodon carcharias: Teng, 1958: 12 , fig.8; 1962: 32, fig. 22; Chen, 1963: 36; Shen, 1984a: 54, fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 124; Chen & Joung, 1993: 51, pl. 5.4; Shen & Wu, 2011: 61, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: Teng (1958: fig. 8) first reported this species from Taiwanese waters based on a 2820 mm TL (possibly adult) male, and the species is seen infrequently at fish markets, including a pregnant female that was landed at Su-Ao in March 1988 ( DAE, pers. obs.) .

Remarks: Carcharodon carcharias appears infrequently in catches around Taiwan, most records appear off the east coast, including a few records of gravid females being landed at fish markets in Taiwan; this information combined with gravid females being reported from Okinawa suggests that these sharks may use this region as a birthing area ( Uchida et al., 1996).

Conservation status: Vulnerable.