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Tiger shark - Galeocerdo cuvier

Family CARCHARHINIDAE - Requiem sharks

Resouces from government sites on Galeocerdo cuvier :

ADW: Galeocerdo cuvier: Information
...cuvier. Galeocerdo cuvier (tiger shark). ... Family: Carcharhinidae. Genus: Galeocerdo.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Galeocerdo_cuvier.html

ADW: Galeocerdo cuvier: Classification
Galeocerdo cuvier (tiger shark). ... Parent taxa. pictures. Genus Galeocerdo.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Tigershark/tigershark.htm

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
900 kg (2000 lbs). A) Upper and lower teeth of Galeocerdo cuvier, ex Casey
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Education/sharkkey/tigershark.html

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier). Biological Profile Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
http://waquarium.otted.hawaii.edu/MLP/root/html/SuggestedReadings/TigerShark.html

Suggested readings on tiger sharks
1988. Longevity records for captive tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvier with notes on
http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab/research/drlowe/midway.shtml

CSULB Sharklab
Last summer (2001) we spent 2 weeks at Midway tagging Galapagos sharks
http://www.miami.edu/sharklab/aboutbimini_sharks.html

Bimini Biological Field Station - shark research & marine biology ...
Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier); Blacktip Shark (Carcharhinus limbatus); Nurse Shark
http://www.fiu.edu/~heithaus/Publications.htm

Publications
2002. Habitat use and foraging behavior of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier)
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~dbensen/Spec/Chondrichthyes.html

Chondrichthyes
...other sharks. In some ways, these scavenger-predators are Spec-analogues
http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu/database/teleost/otoliths.htm

Taxa
1 Carcharhinus sp. 2 Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz Galeocerdo cuvier (Peron & LeSueur)
http://www.jcu.edu/educatio/WebQuests3/Grabiec/a_webquest_designed_for_third_grsharks.htm

A WebQuest designed for third graders
...http://www.shark.ch/cgi-bin/Sharks/spec_conv.pl?E+Galeocerdo.cuvier Tiger Shark.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncas/jemsstab.html

JEMSS Tables of Contents
Frank J. Schwartz, Food of tiger sharks, Galeocerdo cuvier (Carcharhinidae)
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/shark_fossil_lab.htm

Shark Fossil Lab
Mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, Bluefish or similar smaller bony fish, squid. Tiger, Galeocerdo
http://psrc.mlml.calstate.edu/enps.htm

PSRC - Eastern North Pacific Sharks
...whitetip shark Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) — Dusky shark Carcharhinus
http://marine.unh.edu/facstaffstugradstudents.html

Faculty, Staff & Students - Graduate Students
...edu. Thesis: Validated Age and Growth Estimates for the Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gulfofmaine-census/Docs/About/Organisms/fishes00_11.htm

Census of Marine Life Gulf of Maine Area Program
Image: Courtesy of Bigelow and Schroder, 1953 Class: Elasmobranchii Order:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~carlm/tigershark.html



Academic web resources on Galeocerdo cuvier :

Feature Shark - Tiger (<I>Galeocerdo cuvier</I>)
Feature Shark - Tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier). The tiger shark is the easiest
http://na.nefsc.noaa.gov/sharks/species/tiger.html

Tiger Shark
Tiger Shark--Galeocerdo cuvier. Recognition: The tiger shark is the easiest to identify
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=5650810&dopt=Abstract

The optic tracts of two species of sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier and ...
Brain Res. 1968 Apr;8(1):36-53. The optic tracts of two species of sharks (Galeocerdo
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1276972&dopt=Abstract

Purification and properties of a carboxylesterase from the liver ...
Can J Biochem. 1976 May;54(5):453-61. Purification and properties of a
http://www.nps.gov/npsa/NPSAfish/family/carchar.htm

NPSpecies Report
...black-tipped reef shark, 160365, Probably Present, No data, No data, Native. Galeocerdo
http://www.nps.gov/npsa/NPSAfish/NSAlistc_efg.htm

National Park of American Samoa
9741. Fusigobius sp. 2, -9922. Galeocerdo cuvier, naiufi, tiger shark, 160189.
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/RefRpt?search_type=publication&search_id=pub_id&search_id_value=713

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Compagno, Leonard JV
Galeocerdo Müller and Henle, 1837 -- valid. Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron and Lesueur
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/RefRpt?search_type=publication&search_id=pub_id&search_id_value=2161

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. ...
...bramble shark. Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron and Lesueur in Lesueur, 1822) --
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/recreational/survey/species_group_list.html

MRFSS - Survey Species Groups
Isurus oxyrinchus, shortfin mako. Carcharhinidae, requiem shark family. Galeocerdo
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sharks/FS_Tiger.htm

Fact Sheet - Tiger Shark
...throughout the world. The tiger shark is the leading attack species in Hawaii.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol03_Ch0121-0200D/HRS0187A/HRS_0187A-0001.htm

PART I
...melanopterus), gray reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), big-nosed shark
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/tm/tm110/tm110t1.htm

TM 110 Table 1
Night shark (C. signatus), 38. 154. 72-235. 130. 60-195. 0.8390. 0.5026. 0.9883.
http://www-wit.mcs.anl.gov/subunit/subunit.cgi



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