Specimen Z 9166 Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Taxon Name

  Carcharodon carcharias

• Author and date of publication

  (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Preferred Common name

  White Shark

• Other Common Names

  Great White Shark, White Pointer

• Date Identified

  20/05/2004

• Identified By

  Dr Martin F. Gomon - Museums Victoria

• Number Of Specimens

  1

• Sex

  Male

• Specimen Nature

  Nature: Tissue, Form: Frozen, Fixative treatment: ethanol 95%, Medium: ethanol 95%

• Tissue Details

  Type: Liver, Preservative: ethanol 96%, Storage temperature: -196°C

• Tissue sampled from

  Museums Victoria specimen A 25529.1

• Collected By

  Simon Tidswell - skipper of FV Veronica S

• Sampling Method

  trawl

• Date Visited From

  18/05/2004

• Date Visited To

  18/05/2004

• Depth From (m)

  35

• Category

  Natural Sciences

• Scientific Group

  Vertebrate Zoology

• Discipline

  DNA Laboratory

• Collecting Areas

  Tissue and DNA

• Type of Item

  Specimen

Taxonomy

• Kingdom

  Animalia

• Phylum

  Chordata

• Subphylum

  Craniata

• Superclass

  Gnathostomata

• Class

  Chondrichthyes

• Subclass

  Elasmobranchii

• Order

  Lamniformes

• Family

  Lamnidae

• Genus

  Carcharodon

• Species Name

  carcharias