Great white shark · Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
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Roger Kastel · Public domain
Spielberg/Benchley image that outran the biology.
Jaws (film) (1975, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd · Public domain
Novelist who later campaigned against the fear he had sold.
Peter Benchley (1940-2006, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Public named tags -- Mary Lee and others.
OCEARCH (2012- tracks, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Obtund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Offshore California-Hawaii lingering zone.
White Shark Cafe (named 2000s, Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Jan Roletto · Public domain
Elephant-seal predations that trained a generation of observers.
Farallon Islands (Ainley / Klimley work, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Self · CC BY-SA 2.5
Cage tourism stacked on a Cape fur-seal commute.
Gansbaai / Dyer Island (cage-dive hub, South Africa) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Outsized female that became a tabloid individual.
Deep Blue (shark) (media giant, Mexico / Hawaii) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Original: IUCN Vector: Mysid · Public domain
The Vulnerable card that tourism brochures skip.
IUCN Shark Specialist Group (VU assessments, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Chum and cages fund tags and also rewrite shark behaviour around boats. The ethics split operators and some biologists.
Cape Cod headlines are not a stock assessment. Slow maturity still sets the Red List tempo.
Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
Overall 63 🐟A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🐠Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
Overall 41 🐴Upright syngnathids whose male pregnancy and dried-medicine trade made a small fish a CITES case.
Overall 28 🎏Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
Overall 36