Tiger Shark

Galeocerdo cuvier

Status: threatened

Size: 16 feet and longer.

Weight: up to 1,300 pounds.

Its diet is the most diverse, almost indiscriminate: includes fish, rays, turtles and even other sharks. It also eats garbage, as well as shipwreck flotsam.

Can be distinguished from other sharks by its uniform sickle-shaped teeth.

It is the victim of sports-fishing.