sandbar shark

English Thesaurus

1. most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	requiem shark,
definition	:	any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	carcharhinus, genus carcharhinus,
definition	:	type genus of the Carcharhinidae (noun.animal)

2. widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	requiem shark,
definition	:	any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	carcharhinus, genus carcharhinus,
definition	:	type genus of the Carcharhinidae (noun.animal)