requiem shark
Noun
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Any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species (synset 101491559)
is a type of: shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scalessubtypes:
- bull shark, carcharhinus leucas, cub shark - a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous
- carcharhinus plumbeus, sandbar shark - most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen
- blacktip shark, carcharhinus limbatus, sandbar shark - widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink
- carcharinus longimanus, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, whitetip shark - large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark
- carcharhinus obscurus, dusky shark - relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
- lemon shark, negaprion brevirostris - common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous
- blue shark, great blue shark, prionace glauca - slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters
- galeocerdo cuvieri, tiger shark - large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body
- galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin, soupfin shark - Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)
belongs to: carcharhinidae, family carcharhinidae - largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks
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