tiger shark

English

tiger shark

tiger shark range

Noun

tiger shark (plural tiger sharks)

1. A large shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, of wide warm-water distribution, that hunts alone and has dark stripes across its back.

Derived terms

• sand tiger shark

 

Translations

Galeocerdo cuvier

• Catalan: tauró tigre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼬鯊／鼬鲨 (zh) (yòushā)

• Dutch: tijgerhaai (nl)
• Finnish: tiikerihai
• French: requin-tigre (fr) m
• German: Tigerhai (de) m
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tigriscápa (hu)
• Icelandic: tígrisháfur m
• Indonesian: hiu harimau, hiu macan
• Irish: siorc tíograch m
• Italian: squalo tigre m
• Japanese: 鼬鮫 (ja) (いたちざめ, itachizame)
• Khmer: ឆ្លាមខ្លា (claam klaa)
• Korean: 뱀상어 (baemsang'eo)
• Malay: jerung harimau
• Maori: tōiki
• Norwegian: tigerhai m
• Polish: żarłacz tygrysi m
• Portuguese: tubarão-tigre m
• Russian: тигро́вая аку́ла f (tigróvaja akúla)
• Seri: hacat coospoj caacoj
• Spanish: tiburón tigre m
• Swedish: tigerhaj (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kaplan köpek balığı
• Vietnamese: cá mập báo, cá mập hổ

Further reading

• tiger shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Galeocerdo cuvier on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Galeocerdo cuvier on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons