Then visit the entire Mediterranean Shark Site HERE Since 1989, I have curated a database listing all reported captures and sightings of white sharks within Mediterranean waters. Although the database runs contemporaneously, it also collates and clarifies previous published and unpublished pre-1989 records, as far back as the early 19th Century. In excess of two hundred records are now databased, the majority from Italian coastal waters and the Sicilian Channel. Golfo di Baratti, nr. Piombino, Tuscany, Italy.
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Below is a synopsis of white shark biology within the Mediterranean Sea. First dorsal fin broadly triangular, with origin above or slightly posterior to the axil of the pectoral fins. Teeth are essentially broad and triangular, with serrated margins, distinguishing this species from the other lamnids. Newborn white sharks are often locally misidentified as Isurus oxyrinchus or Lamna nasus . Size at birth 120 to 150 cm.