Great white shark  (Carcharodon carcharias)

Range

Great white sharks are found throughout the world's oceans mostly in temperate and sometimes warm waters but occasionally on cold environments (2). Recent scientific research using satellite tags  has found that adults can undertake long return migrations across entire ocean basins and back, while juveniles stay closer to the shore, but can also undertake long-distance coastal migrations (8) (9).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Preferred habitat is coastal and offshore waters of the continental and insular shelves and offshore continental islands, but recent evidence suggests that adults are probably pelagic for much of the year, readily being found in oceanic waters from the surface to depths of 980 metres and possibly more (8) (9).

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