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Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822)

Tiger shark
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Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Spain country information

Common names: Alecrín, Amarillo, Tiburón tigre
Occurrence: introduced
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Recorded 1st in the Mediterranean in Malaga in 1994. Entered the Mediterranean via Gibraltar. One of the two substantiated records in the Mediterranean (Ref. 43448).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/sp.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Golani, D., L. Orsi Relini, E. Massutí and J.-P. Quignard, 2002
National Database: ICTIMED

Common names from other countries

Requin tigre commun, Tintorera tigre, Common tiger shark, ... more

Klassifizierung / Names Namen | Synonyme | Catalog of Fishes(Gattung, Arten) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (Haie und Rochen) (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Galeocerdonidae (Tiger sharks)
Etymology: Galeocerdo: galeos, a small shark or dogfish according to Aristotle and others (but perhaps used here as a generic term for shark); kerdo, Greek for fox, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to a cunning ability to steal bait from the line (see Alopias, Alopiidae). (See ETYFish);  cuvier: Patronym not identified but almost certainly in honor of French naturalist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), then most famous for his Le Règne Animal (1816), a survey of the animal kingdom based on comparative anatomy [presumably a noun in apposition, without the patronymic “i”]. (See ETYFish).
  More on authors: Péron & Lesueur.

Issue
Same spelling in Ref. 3814.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ökologie


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