great white shark

Summary

great white shark is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.025% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,916 views/month, #48 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• great white shark's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• great white shark is classified at the rank of species^[4].
• great white shark's IUCN conservation status is recorded as Vulnerable^[5].
• great white shark belongs to the parent taxon Carcharodon^[6].
• Under binomial nomenclature, great white shark is Carcharodon carcharias^[7].
• great white shark's Commons category is recorded as Carcharodon carcharias^[8].
• great white shark began on -16000000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[9].
• great white shark's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Carcharodon carcharias^[10].
• great white shark's Commons gallery is recorded as Carcharodon carcharias^[11].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as fish^[12].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Teuthida^[13].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as seabird^[14].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as sea turtle^[15].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Pinnipedia^[16].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as dolphin^[17].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Phoca vitulina^[18].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as California sea lion^[19].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as northern elephant seal^[20].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Grey Seal^[21].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Brown Fur Seal^[22].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Arctocephalus forsteri^[23].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Australian sea lion^[24].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as common bottlenose dolphin^[25].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Short-beaked Common Dolphin^[26].
• great white shark's main food source is recorded as Chinese white dolphin^[27].

Body

Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, great white shark is Carcharodon carcharias^[7]. It is classified at the rank of species^[4]. It belongs to the parent taxon Carcharodon^[6].

Identifiers

great white shark's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 13397^[28]. great white shark's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559751^[29]. great white shark's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2420694^[30]. great white shark's ITIS TSN is recorded as 159903^[31].

Discovery and Description

Things named for great white shark include White Shark Café^[32], a region^[33].

Why It Matters

great white shark ranks in the top 0.025% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,916 views/month, #48 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] It is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for it include White Shark Café^[32], a region^[33].