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Great white shark
Great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias)
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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Chondrichthyes
Order
Lamniformes
Family
Lamnidae
Genus
Carcharodon
(1)
Size
Length: up to 6.4 m
(2)
Weight
up to 3,400 kg
(3)
Status
Classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List
(1)
, and listed on Appendix II of CITES
(4)
.
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