Sharks A–Z in ABC Order
There are over 500 known species of sharks and around 540 has been noticed, grouped into diffrent families based on shared traits, yet each of these speice are still very unique in their own way with distinct features, behaviors, and adaptations, making sharks one of the most diverse groups of marine animals.. ࣪★ ᯓ🦈ᯓ★ ࣪ ˖
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Group A Sharks ♥
African Angelshark
African Dwarf Sawshark
African Lanternshark
African Sawtail Catshark
Angelshark (Monkfish)
Angular Angelshark
Angular Roughshark
Antilles Catshark
Arabian Carpetshark
Arabian Catshark
Arabian Smooth-hound
Argentine Angelshark
Arrow-head Dogfish
Atlantic Angelshark
Atlantic Sawtail Catshark
Atlantic Sharpnose Shark
Atlantic Weasel Shark
Australian Angelshark
Australian Blackspotted Catshark
Australian Blacktip Shark
Australian Grey Smooth-hound
Australian Marbled Catshark
Australian Reticulate Swellshark
Australian Sawtail Catshark
Australian Sharpnose Shark
Australian Spotted Catshark
Australian Swellshark
Australian Weasel Shark
Azores Dogfish
Group B Sharks ♥
Bahamas Sawshark
Bali Catshark
Balloon Shark
Banded Houndshark
Banded Sand Catshark
Banded Wobbegong
Barbeled Houndshark
Barbelthroat Carpetshark
Bareskin Dogfish
Bartail Spurdog
Basking Shark
Beige Catshark
Bigeye Houndshark
Bigeye Sand Tiger
Bigeye Sixgill Shark
Bigeye Thresher Shark
Bighead Catshark
Bighead Spurdog
Bignose Shark
Birdbeak Dogfish
Black Dogfish
Black Roughscale Catshark
Black-tip sawtail catshark
Blackbelly Lanternshark
Blackgill Catshark
Blackmouth catshark
Blackmouth Lanternshark
Blacknose shark
Blackspot Shark
Blackspotted Catshark
Blackspotted Smooth-hound
Blacktail Reef Shark
Blacktailed Spurdog
Blacktip Reef Shark
Blacktip shark
Blacktip Tope
Blind Shark
Blotched Catshark
Blotchy Swellshark
Blue Shark
Bluegrey Carpetshark
Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
Blurred Lanternshark
Blurred Lanternshark
Boa Catshark
Boa Catshark
Bonnethead Shark
Borneo Catshark
Borneo Shark
Bramble Shark
Brazilian Sharpnose Shark
Bristled Lanternshark
Bristly Catshark
Broadbanded Lanternshark
Broadfin Sawtail Catshark
Broadfin Shark
Broadgill Catshark
Broadhead Catshark
Broadmouth Catshark
Broadnose Catshark
Broadnose Sevengill Shark
Broadsnout Lanternshark
Brown Catshark
Brown Shyshark
Brown Smooth-hound
Brownbanded Bamboo Shark
Brownspotted Catshark
Bull shark
Burmese Bamboo Shark
GROUP C SHARKS ♥
Campeche Catshark
Caribbean Lanternshark
Caribbean Reef Shark
Caribbean Roughshark
Caribbean Sharpnose Shark
Cenderawasih Epaulette Shark
Chain Catshark
Chilean Angelshark
Clouded Angelshark
Cloudy Catshark
Coates’ Shark
Cobbler Wobbegong
Collared Carpetshark
Combtooth Dogfish
Combtooth Lanternshark
Common Smooth-hound
Common Thresher Shark
Comoro Catshark
Cook’s Swellshark
Cookiecutter Shark
Copper Shark
Coral Catshark
Creek Whaler
Crescent Bullhead Shark
Crested Bullhead Shark
Crocodile Shark
Crying Izak
Cuban Dogfish
Cuban Ribbontail Catshark
Cylindrical Lanternshark
Cyrano Spurdog
GROUP D SHARKS ♥
Daggernose Shark
Dark Shyshark
Deepwater Catshark
Deepwater Sicklefin Houndshark
Densescale Lanternshark
Draughtsboard Shark
Dumb Gulper shark
Dusky Catshark
Dusky shark
Dusky Smooth-hound
Dwarf Catshark
Dwarf False Catshark
Dwarf Gulper Shark
Dwarf Lanternshark
Dwarf Sawfish
Dwarf Sawtail Catshark
Dwarf Smooth-hound
Dwarf Spotted Wobbegong
GROUP E SHARKS ♥
Eastern Angelshark
Eastern Banded Catshark
Eastern Highfin Spurdog
Eastern Longnose Spurdog
Eastern Spotted Gummy Shark
Edmund’s Spurdog
Elongate Carpetshark
Epaulette Shark
GROUP F SHARKS ♥
False Catshark
False Lanternshark
Fat Catshark
Fatspine Spurdog
Filetail Catshark
Finetooth Shark
Flaccid Catshark
Flagtail Swellshark
Flapnose Houndshark
Flat-head Catshark
Floral Banded Wobbegong
Freckled Catshark
Frilled Shark
Fringefin Lanternshark
Frog Shark
GROUP G SHARKS ♥
Galapagos Bullhead Shark
Galapagos Catshark
Galapagos Shark
Ganges Shark
Gecko Catshark
Ghost Catshark
Ginger Carpetshark
Goblin Shark
Graceful Catshark
Graceful Shark
Granular Dogfish
Granular Dogfish
Great Hammerhead Shark
Great Lanternshark
Great White Shark
Green Lanternshark
Green-eye Spurdog
Greenland Shark
Grey Bamboo Shark
Grey Sharpnose Shark
Grey Smooth-hound
Grinning Izak
Gulf Catshark
Gulf Smooth-hound
Gulper Shark
Gummy Shark
GROUP H SHARKS ♥
Hardnose Shark
Hardnose Shark
Harlequin Catshark
Hasselt’s Bamboo Shark
Hawailian Lanternshark
Hidden Angelshark
High-Fin Dogfish
Hoary Catshark
Honeycomb Izak Catshark
Hooded Carpet Shark
Hooktooth Dogfish
Hooktooth Shark
Horn Shark
Humpback Catshark
Humpback Smooth-hound
GROUP I SHARKS ♥
Iceland Catshark
Indian Swellshark
Indonesian Angelshark
Indonesian Greeneye Spurdog
Indonesian Shortsnout Spurdog
Indonesian Speckled Carpet Shark
Indonesian Speckled Catshark
Irrawady River Shark
Izak Catshark
Izu Catshark
GROUP J SHARKS ♥
Japanese Angelshark
Japanese Bullhead Shark
Japanese Catshark
Japanese Roughshark
Japanese Sawshark
Japanese Shortnose Spurdog
Japanese Spurdog
Japanese Topeshark
Japanese Velvet Dogfish
Japanese Wobbegong
GROUP K SHARKS ♥
Kermadec Spiny Dogfish
Kitefin Shark
Knife-tooth Dogfish
GROUP L SHARKS ♥
Lana’s Sawshark
Large-nose Catshark
Largespine Velvet Dogfish
Largetooth Cookiercutter Shark
Largetooth Sawfish
Leafscale Gulper Shark
Lemon Shark
Leopard Catshark
Leopard Epaulette Shark
Leopard Shark
Lesser-spotted Catshark
Lined Catshark
Lined Lanternshark (Etmopterus bullisi)
Lined Lanternshark (Etmopterus dislineatus)
Little Gulper Shark
Lizard Catshark
Llittle Sleeper Shark
Lollipop Catshark
Long-fin Catshark
Long-head Catshark
Long-nose Catshark
Long-nose Pygmy Shark
Long-nose Sawshark
Longcomb Sawfish
Longfin Catshark
Longfin Mako Shark
Longfin Sawtail Catshark
Longnose Houndshark
Longnose Sawtail Catshark
Longnose Spurdog
Longnose Velvet Dogfish
Longsnout Dogfish
GROUP M SHARKS ♥
Magnificent Catshark
Mandarin Dogfish
Mcmillan’s Catshark
Megamouth Shark
Mexican Horn Shark
Milk Shark
Moller’s Lanternshark
Mosaic Gulper Shark
Mouse Catshark
Mud Catshark
GROUP N SHARKS ♥
Narrow Sawfish
Narrow-fin Smooth-hound
Narrow-mouthed Catshark
Narrow-tail Catshark
Narrowbar Swellshark
Narrownose Smooth-hound
Natal Shyshark
Necklace Carpetshark
Nervous Shark
Network Wobbegong
New Caledonia Catshark
New Zealand Catshark
New Zealand Lanternshark
New Zealand Lanternshark
Night Shark
Northern River Shark
Northern Sawtail Catshark
Northern Spiny Dogfish
Northern Wobbegong
Nurse Shark
Nursehound Catshark
GROUP O SHARKS ♥
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Ocellate Topeshark
Ocellated Angelshark
Oman Bullhead Shark
One-fin Catshark
Orange Spotted Catshark
Ornate Angelshark
Ornate Dogfish
Ornate Wobbegong
GROUP P SHARKS ♥
Pacific Angelshark
Pacific Nurse Shark
Pacific Sharpnose Shark
Pacific Sleeper Shark
Pacific Smalltail Shark
Pacific Spadenose Shark
Pacific Spiny Dogfish
Pale Catshark
Pale Spotted Catshark
Panama Ghost Catshark
Papuan Epaulette Shark
Pelagic Thresher Shark
Peppered Catshark
Phallic Catshark
Pigeye Shark
Pink Lanternashark
Pinocchio Catshark
Plunket Shark
Pocket shark
Pondicherry Shark
Porbeagle Shark
Port Jackson Shark
Portuguese Dogfish
Prickly Dogfish
Prickly Shark
Puffadder Shyshark
Pygmy Lanternshark
Pygmy Ribbontail Catshark
Pygmy Shark
Pyjama Catshark
GROUP Q SHARKS ♥
Quagga Catshark
GROUP R SHARKS ♥
Rasptooth Dogfish
Redspotted Catshark
Reticulated Swellshark
Rough Longnose Dogfish
Rough-tail Catshark
Roughskin catshark
Roughskin Dogfish
Roughskin Spurdog
Rusty Carpetshark
Rusty Catshark
GROUP S SHARKS &heart;
Saddle Carpetshark
Saddled Swellshark
Sail-back Houndshark
Sail-fin Roughshark
Salamander Catshark
Saldanha Catshark
Salmon Shark
Sand Tiger Shark
Sandbar Shark
Sarawak Pygmy Swellshark
Sawback Angelshark
Scalloped Bonnethead
Scalloped Hammerhead
School Shark
Scoop-head Hammerhead
Seychelles Gulper Shark
Seychelles Spurdog
Sharpfin Houndshark
Sharpnose Sevengill Shark
Sharptooth Houndshark
Sharptooth Lemon Shark
Sharptooth Smooth-hound
Sherwood’s Dogfish
Short-belly Catshark
Short-nose Spurdog
Short-tail Lanternshark
Short-tail Nurse shark
Shortfin Mako Shark
Shortnose Demon Catshark
Shortnose Sawshark
Shortspine Spurdog
Sicklefin Houndshark
Sicklefin Smooth-hound
Sicklefin Weasel Shark
Silky Shark
Silvertip shark
Six-gill Sawshark
Slender Bamboo Shark
Slender Catshark
Slender Sawtail Catshark
Slender Smooth-hound
Slender Weasel Shark
Slit-eye Shark
Small-belly Catshark
Small-dorsal Catshark
Small-eye Catshark
Small-eye Hammerhead
Small-eye Lanternshark
Small-eye Pygmy Shark
Small-eye Smooth-hound
Small-fin Catshark
Small-fin Gulper Shark
Smalltail Shark
Smalltooth Sand Tiger
Smalltooth Sawfish
Smooth Hammerhead
Smooth Lanternshark
Smooth-tooth Blacktip shark
Smoothback Angelshark
Snaggletooth Shark
Sombre Catshark
South China Catshark
Southern Lanternshark
Southern Mandarin Dogfish
Southern Sawtail Catshark
Southern Sleeper Shark
Spadenose Shark
Sparsetooth Dogfish
Speartooth Shark
Speckled Carpet Shark
Speckled Catshark
Speckled Smooth-hound
Speckled Swellshark
Spined Pygmy Shark
Spinner shark
Spiny Dogfish
Splendid Lanternshark
Sponge-head Catshark
Spot-tail Shark
Spotless Catshark
Spotless Smooth-hound
Spotted Estuary Smooth-hound
Spotted Houndshark
Spotted Wobbegong
Springer’s Sawtail Catshark
Starry Catshark
Starry Smooth-hound
Starspotted Smooth-hound
Stout Catshark
Straight-tooth weasel shark
Striped Smooth-hound
Swellshark
GROUP T SHARKS &heart;
Tailspot Lanternshark
Taiwan Angelshark
Taiwan Saddled Carpetshark
Tall-light Shark
Tasselled Wobbegong
Tawny Nurse Shark
Thorny Lanternshark
Tiger Catshark
Tiger Shark
Triton Epaulette Shark
Tropical Sawshark
GROUP U SHARKS (None Yet) ♥
GROUP V SHARKS &heart;
Variegated Catshark
Velvet Belly Lanternshark
Velvet Catshark
Velvet Dogfish
Viper Dogfish
GROUP W SHARKS ♥
West Indian Lanternshark
Western African catshark
Western Angelshark
Western Gulper Shark
Western Highfin Spurdog
Western Longnose Spurdog
Western Spotted Catshark
Western Wobbegong
Whale Shark
Whiskery Shark
White Ghost Catshark
White-bodied Catshark
White-clasper Catshark
White-fin Swellshark
White-margin Fin Houndshark
White-saddled Catshark
White-spotted Bamboo Shark
White-Spotted Catshark
White-spotted Smooth-hound
White-tail Dogfish
White-tip Catshark
White-tip Reef Shark
Whitecheek Shark
Whitefin Dogfish
Whitefin Topeshark
Whitenose Shark
Whitespotted Bullhead Shark
Whitetip Weasel Shark
Winghead Shark
GROUP X SHARKS ♥(None Yet)
GROUP Y SHARK ♥
Yellowspotted Catshark
GROUP Z SHARKS ♥
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Carcharhiniformes: Also known as ground sharks, with around 270 species. They typically have two dorsal fins (the first usually larger), an anal fin, five gill slits, and a nictitating membrane over the eyes.
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Heterodontiformes: Known as bullhead sharks, these species are recognized for their unique teeth and jaw structures.
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Hexanchiformes: Distinguished by having six or seven gill slits and long, eel-like bodies.
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Lamniformes: Includes species like the great white shark and goblin shark. They typically have large mouths and powerful bodies.
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Orectolobiformes: Often called carpet sharks, these species include the whale shark and are characterized by flattened bodies and patterned skin.
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Pristiophoriformes: These are the sawsharks, named for their long, toothed snouts that resemble saws.
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Squaliformes: Also known as dogfish sharks, they often lack an anal fin and have spines in front of their dorsal fins.
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Squatiniformes: Known as angel sharks, they have flattened bodies and broad pectoral fins that give them a ray-like appearance.
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Credits & Sources:
Some facts were inspired by and adapted from educational resources such as:
- Active Wild (activewild.com )
- Sharkwater Shark Database (sharkwater.com )
All facts were rewritten in my own words for educational and fun purposes. 🩵
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