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Length

How does something "grow up to 14–20 feet long"? Wouldn't that just be "grows up to 20 feet long"? 129.139.1.69 (talk) 14:16, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could use a sentence or two explaining how it came to be known as Tiger Shark. i think that it is a dumb name but still. I certainly can't see any resemblance to a tiger, and would be interested to know. EDIT: The stripes right Rikeus (talk) 14:06, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is a very distinct striped pattern along the length of the shark on it's sides. In mature sharks, this often isn't as distinct, but it is very clear in juveniles. It's this pattern which gives them their name. douts (talk) 15:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental "cite error" - please help?

Somewhere in the numerous edits I just made to the article I appear to have messed up two of the references. I mean well but am by no means an expert on using this website - could someone please look into it and fix this error? I tried to find it but I cannot figure out where I went wrong. PLEASE DO NOT SIMPLY REVERT MY EDITS; I spent quite a while improving the accuracy of this article and would hate to see all that work go to waste. Thanks.

Please be more specific - which references did you mess up and in what sense? Materialscientist (talk) 11:03, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Latin name

Shouldn't this article mention that the tiger shark's Latin name commemorates Georges Cuvier? Georges_Cuvier

Flizzjkzaop (talk) 21:38, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As soon as someone finds a reliable source, absolutely.--Mr Fink (talk) 21:54, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 How does something "grow up to 14–20 feet long"?  Wouldn't that just be "grows up to 20 feet long"? [[Special:Contributions/129.139.1.69|129.139.1.69]] ([[User talk:129.139.1.69|talk]]) 14:16, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
-Could use a sentence or two explaining how it came to be known as Tiger Shark. I certainly can't see any resemblance to a tiger, and would be interested to know.
+Could use a sentence or two explaining how it came to be known as Tiger Shark. i think that it is a dumb name but still. I certainly can't see any resemblance to a tiger, and would be interested to know. EDIT: The stripes right
 [[User:Rikeus|Rikeus]] ([[User talk:Rikeus|talk]]) 14:06, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 :There is a very distinct striped pattern along the length of the shark on it's sides. In mature sharks, this often isn't as distinct, but it is very clear in juveniles. It's this pattern which gives them their name. [[User:Douts|douts]] ([[User talk:Douts|talk]]) 15:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)