Title: Saltwater fish Species #: 1

Common Name: Great White Shark

Scientific Name: Carcharodon carcharias

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata SubPhylum Vertebrata

Class: Chrondrichthyes SubClass Elasmobranchii

Order: Lamniformes

Family: Lamnidae

Geography / Habitat: Swims around the coastal regions of all the oceans. These sharks primarily inhabit coastal regions where the water temperature ranges between 12degress C to 24 degrees C - 54 degrees F to 75 degrees F. However, they are found in large numbers around the southern coast of Australia, California, South Africa, Isla Guadalupe Mexico. The maximum population inhabits the coastal region around the Dyer Island in South Africa.

Life Strategy: Great White shark is able to reproduce when grown to a length of about 3.8 meters for a male and 4.5 meters for a female. Little is known of the mating habits and rituals. The Great White Shark is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs develop and hatch in the female’s uterus. When born the offspring are about 1.5m long and perfectly capable predators. A female Great White Shark will give typically give birth to 8 or 9 babies.

Food / Feed Strategy: Great White sharks typically eat fish, other sharks, sea lions, seals, sea-birds, small whales, turtles, porpoises and carrion. Humans are not part of their food. A lot of people think this. When they attack, they can go up to 35mph.

Body Form or Style: fusiform Swim / Locomotion Style: thunniform Mouth Position:

CitatC itation: "The Great White Shark - Information and Facts." A Parent's Guide to Internet

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