requiem shark

Definitions of requiem shark

1. noun

   any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
   types:

   Carcharhinus leucas, bull shark, 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

   Carcharhinus limbatus, blacktip shark, 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

   Negaprion brevirostris, lemon shark

   common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous

   Prionace glauca, blue shark, great blue shark

   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)

   type of:

   shark

   any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales