Chondrichthyes · Lamniformes
Great White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
Apex predator reaching up to 6 meters, using electroreceptive ampullae of Lorenzini in its snout to detect the faint bioelectric fields of hidden prey.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1499 licence-filtered records across 67 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (20)
- Beacon Wind Digital Aerial Wildlife Surveys for BOEM Lease Area OCS-A 0520, Equinor Wind US LLC, March 2021 – October 2021 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Digital video aerial surveys of seabirds and marine megafauna in the Gulf of Maine from May 2023 to January 2024 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Ecological Baseline Studies of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Option Year 2 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- MBIS Marine Fauna and Flora observations around New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Shark Spotters shark tracking (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- TOPPWS (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)