Animals / Fish

Great white shark

Carcharodon carcharias · Lamnidae

The great white shark, also known as the white shark, white pointer, or great white, is a large shark. It is closely related to the mako sharks, the porbeagle, and the salmon shark. It is a robustly built species with a grayish upperside and a white underside.

Where the Great white shark lives

Recorded in Ashmore and Cartier Is., United States of America, New Zealand, Brazil and South Africa (Oceania, North America, South America and Africa).

Most records fall in California, New South Wales, Western Cape and South Australia.

See the Great white shark’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 17,039 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.