Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822)

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Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822) .

Tiger Shark. To 7.4 m (24.4 ft) TL ( Randall 1992). Circumglobal in tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Honshu Island, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); sighting (unverifiable) at Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska ( Karinen et al. 1985); southern California to Peru ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) , including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Gulf of California ( Galván-Magaña et al. 1996). Coastal pelagic; marine and brackish waters (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); depth: surface and intertidal to 1,136 m (3,726 ft) ( Werry et al. 2014). Tiger sharks living in the Atlantic may represent a separate species ( Naylor et al. 2012).