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great white shark

species of large lamniform shark
Taxon taxon Q129026
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Summary

great white shark is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.025% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28,901 views/month, #48 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Vulnerable[4]
  • Parent taxon: Carcharodon[5]
  • Taxon name: Carcharodon carcharias[6]
  • Commons category: Carcharodon carcharias[7]
  • Temporal range start: Miocene[8]
  • Start time: -16000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Carcharodon carcharias[10]
  • Commons gallery: Carcharodon carcharias[11]
  • Main food source: fish[12], Teuthida[13], seabird[14], sea turtle[15], Pinnipedia[16], dolphin[17], Phoca vitulina[18], California sea lion[19], northern elephant seal[20], Grey Seal[21], Brown Fur Seal[22], Arctocephalus forsteri[23], Australian sea lion[24], common bottlenose dolphin[25]

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Identifiers

great white shark's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 13397[26]. great white shark's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559751[27]. great white shark's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2420694[28]. great white shark's ITIS TSN is recorded as 159903[29].

Discovery and Description

Things named for great white shark include White Shark Café[30], a region[31].

Why It Matters

great white shark has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 119 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include White Shark Café[30], a region[31].

Related Entities

Jaws

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · TerrorBite · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14516 → vulnerable
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14516: vulnerable, Added EPBC conservation status (P14516) using data from https://www.environment.gov.au"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0230982-zralok-bily
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0230982-zralok-bily, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Start time → -16000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Original combination → Squalus carcharias
    Taxon rank → species
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 38942, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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