lemon shark

A large yellowish-brown shark (Negaprion brevirostris) found chiefly in tropical and subtropical coastal waters of the Americas.

[From its yellowish color.]

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Noun

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

Negaprion brevirostris

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

genus Negaprion, Negaprion - lemon sharks

Translations

Zitronenhai

citromcápa

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Study: Sam Gruber of the Sharklab with an adult lemon shark.

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Revolutionary scanning techniques let us see inside the womb of a lemon shark, where 14 embryos are growing for an entire year until they are born half a metre long, fully formed and ready to hunt down their own dinner.

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The lemon shark is common off the south east coast of the US as well as the Caribbean.

Students went from Wales to Caribbean to study sharks and found a shoal of TV crews

"Shark bites are fairly common, but most bite and let go." Mr George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, said: ''It's hard to say what species it was, but the most logical would be a lemon shark.''

Shark kills nine-year-old boy

* To the species listed as Prohibited (highlighted in red), Florida state laws add: tiger shark, lemon shark and hammerhead sharks (great, scalloped and smooth).

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The WSFM breakfast duo performed the feat at the Great Barrier Reef Habitat at the Sydney Aquarium, which is home to eight sharks, including a 2.8 meter lemon shark.

Oz radio hosts set new record for Longest Underwater Broadcast

The 12ft killer - believed to be a lemon shark - struck at popular Vero Beach, 30 miles south of Cape Canaveral, at the weekend.

Mother weeps as she tells how shark killed son

This is a common finding from past studies, where a single sharpnose shark mortality occured ~40 min after release (Gurshin and Szedlmayer, 2004), and juvenile lemon shark mortalities occurred within a 15-min observation period (Danylchuk et al., 2014).

The physiological stress response, postrelease behavior, and mortality of blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) caught on circle and J-hooks in the Florida recreational fishery

Earlier that week club members had reportedly released a 10-foot lemon shark!

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