Carcharodon carcharias

ΑγγλικάA huge, spindle-shaped shark with conspicuous black eyes, a blunt, conical snout and large, triangular, saw-edged teeth (Ref. 5578). First dorsal-fin origin usually over the pectoral-fin inner margins (Ref. 43278, 6871). Caudal fin crescentic (Ref. 247). Lead-grey to brown or black above, lighter on sides, and abruptly white below (Ref. 6851). Black spot at rear pectoral fin base (Ref. 6851).

• Squalus lamia Blainville, 1825
• Squalus lamia Blainville, 1816
• Squalus caninus Osbeck, 1765
• Carharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Carcharias vulgaris (Richardson, 1836)
• Carcharias verus Cloquet, 1817
• Carcharias maso Morris, 1898
• Carcharodon albimors Whitley, 1939
• Carcharodon smithii Agassiz, 1838
• Carcharodon smithi Bonaparte, 1838
• Carcharodon rondeletii Müller & Henle, 1839
• Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, 1758
• Carcharodon capensis Smith, 1839
• Squalus vulgaris Richardson, 1836
• Carcharias lamia Rafinesque, 1810
• Carcharias vorax Owen, 1853
• Carcharias atwoodi Storer, 1848