ML072080197
| ML072080197 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 01/23/2006 |
| From: | Univ of Florida |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| Davis J NRR/DLR/REBB, 415-3835 | |
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| Download: ML072080197 (1) | |
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TIGER SHARK Order - Carcharhiniformes Family - Carcharhinidae Genus - Galeocerdo Species - cuvier Taxonomy First described by Peron and Lessueur in Lessueur (1822), the tiger shark was given the name Squalus cuvier. Later, Muller and Henle (1837) designated Squalus arcticus (Faber, 1829) as the type species and suggested the name Galeocerdo tigrinus. Various synonyms have been used since including: Galeus cepedianus Agassiz 1838, Galeus maculatus Ranzani 1840, Carcharias fasciatus Bleeker 1852, Galeocerdo rayneri McDonald & Barron 1868; Galeocerdo obtusus Klunzinger 1871, and Carcharias hemprichdi Klunzinger 1871. The genus name Galeocerdo is derived from the Greek, galeos = "shark" and the Latin, "cerdus" = the hard hairs of pigs.
Common Names Tiger shark, leopard shark, maneater shark, and spotted shark are English language common names that refer to this shark. Other names include alecrin (Spanish), amarillo (Spanish), amzani (Swahili), bhoavar (Gujarati), cabron (Spanish),
caco cabega-chata (Portuguese), carcharias (Greek), cucut macan (Malay), itachizame (Japanese), jaguara (Portuguese), jarjur (Arabic), jarjur knaza (Arabic), kethulam (Telugu), ma'o patapata (Rapa), mangeur d'hommes (French), mano pa'ele (Hawaiian), ma'o tore tore (Tahitian), marracho tigre (Portuguese), naiufi (Samoan), ngutukao (Maori), pating (Tagalog), pilithatte (Kannada), pulli sravu (Malayalam), qio saga (Fijian), requin demoiselle (French),
requin tigre (Creole), requin tigre commun (French), requin-demoiselle (French), requin-tigre (French), squalo tigre (Italian), te babatababa (Kiribati), tibur6n tigre (Spanish), tierhaai (Afrikaans), tigerhai (German), tigre (Portuguese),
tigrishifur (Icelandic), tiikerihai (Finnish), tijgerhaai (Dutch), tintorera (Spanish), tintureira (Portuguese), wulluven sorrah (Tamil), and zarlacz tygrysi (Polish).
Geographical Distribution The tiger shark is found throughout the world's temperate and tropical waters, with the exception of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a wide-ranging species that is at home both in the open ocean as well as shallow coastal waters. Reports of Iý"t://www.flnmh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Tigershark/tigershark.htm1/320 1/23/2006