Fatal tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier attack in New Caledonia erroneously ascribed to great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias

Autor: Philippe Borsa, Claude Maillaud, Philippe Tirard
Přispěvatelé: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Nouvelle-Calédonie]), Collectif des medecins judiciaires de Nouvelle-Caledonie, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD [Sénégal])
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Poison control
Shark bite
Wounds
Penetrating
computer.software_genre
01 natural sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Misidentification
Photography
Bites and Stings
biology
Behavior
Animal
Shark attack
General Medicine
ISAF
Geography
Thigh
shark attack
food.ingredient
wound
education
Zoology
chemical and pharmacologic phenomena
Computer security
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
food
Species Specificity
New Caledonia
biology.animal
Animals
Humans
030216 legal & forensic medicine
14. Life underwater
International Shark Attack File
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Wound
biology.organism_classification
Galeocerdo
Carcharias
Carcharodon
Great white shark
Jaw
Sharks
misidentification
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
Law
computer
human activities
Tiger shark
Zdroj: Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Elsevier, 2015, 33, pp.68-70. ⟨10.1016/j.jflm.2015.04.011⟩
ISSN: 1752-928X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2015.04.011⟩
Popis: International audience; To understand the causes and patterns of shark attacks on humans, accurate identification of the shark species involved is necessary. Often, the only reliable evidence for this comes from the characteristics of the wounds exhibited by the victim. The present case report is intended as a reappraisal of the Luengoni, 2007 case (International Shark Attack File no. 4299) where a single shark bite provoked the death of a swimmer by haemorrhagic shock. Our examination of the wounds on the body of the victim, here documented by so-far unpublished photographic evidence, determined that the shark possessed large and homodontous jaws. This demonstrates that the attacker was a tiger shark, not a great white shark as previously published.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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