Biggest Giant Grouper-world record set by Nelson Shayne. [Jan 4]Latham Island,Tanzania--One of The Pemba Channel Fishing Club's Bertram's Shuwari, while fishing out of Latham Island hooked up and boated a Giant Grouper weighing 179.5 kg. This is a new world record for the biggest Giant Grouper. Nelson Shayne and a couple of friends chartered Shuwari for a trip to Latham Island, Dar es Salaam.
Robert Paddle (2000, p. 4), in his book: The Last Tasmanian Tiger, quotes an average direct length for an adult male thylacine as 1.63m, and an adult female as 1.54m. The average male body length measurement as cited by Paddle is consistent with the sample group.
Tasmanian tiger redirects here. For the cricket team, see Tasmanian Tigers. The thylacine (/ËÎ¸aÉªlÉsiËn/ THY-lÉ-seen, or /ËÎ¸aÉªlÉsaÉªn/ THY-lÉ-syne, also /ËÎ¸aÉªlÉsáµ»n/; binomial name: Thylacinus cynocephalus, Greek for dog-headed pouched one) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped lower back) or the Tasmanian wolf.