Great white shark all shark species, the great white shark is responsible for by far the largest number of recorded shark bite incidents on humans, with 272 documented unprovoked bite incidents on humans as of 2012. More than any documented bite incident, Peter Benchley's best-selling novel "Jaws" and the subsequent 1975 film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg provided the great white shark with the image of being a "man eater" in the public mind. While great white sharks have killed humans in at least 74 documented unprovoked bite incidents, they typically do not target them: for example, in the Mediterranean Sea there have
Finetooth shark and should be handled with caution. The finetooth shark was originally described as "Carcharias (Aprionodon) isodon" by French zoologist Achille Valenciennes, in Müller and Henle's 1839 "Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen". The type specimen is a 65-cm (26-in) juvenile male, possibly caught off New York. This species was later moved to the genus "Carcharhinus". The specific epithet "isodon" means "equal teeth" in Greek, and refers to the similar number of teeth in the upper and lower jaws. This species may also be referred to as the eventooth shark, smoothtooth shark, or night shark (usually used for "C. signatus"). As is the