ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	sandbar shark - widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus requiem shark - any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species Carcharhinus, genus Carcharhinus - type genus of the Carcharhinidae
	2.	sandbar shark - most common grey shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen Carcharhinus plumbeus requiem shark - any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species Carcharhinus, genus Carcharhinus - type genus of the Carcharhinidae

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

Abstract--Age underestimation of many shark species, such as the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), has been proven with age validation methods including bomb radiocarbon dating, oxytetracydine (OTC) injection, and tagrecapture data.

Using oxytetracydine validation for confirmation of changes in vertebral band-pair deposition rates with ontogeny in sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) in the western North Atlantic Ocean

There are several species of sharks endemic to Lebanon, including the variants seen in the Batroun images -- the bluntnose sixgill shark and the sandbar shark, which also have mating areas near Sidon.

Lebanon in jaws of shark panic but fears unfounded: experts

Sandbar Shark: Size range 2-8 ft; inshore shallow coastal waters '"Sandbar sharks can be retained in the shark research fishery only ***

Sorting out the sharks

Later he published his monograph on the sandbar shark (Springer, 1960), based on records obtained while employed by the Shark Industries Division of the Borden Company (in the 1940's and early 1950's) and later while conducting exploratory fishing aboard BCF R/V Oregon.

The Origins and Rise of Shark Biology in the 20th Century

This week, Elliot, 24, spent 45 minutes in Nantucket, Massachusetts, writhing with a 7ft sandbar shark. Friends filmed the encounter and it's now gone viral online.

Strange.. but true; Bizarre stories from around the world

[31] NOAA/NMFS, Stock Assessment Report--Large Coastal Shark Complex, Blacktip and Sandbar Shark, Silver Spring, Maryland, 2006, H.M.S.M.

Aerial survey as a tool to estimate abundance and describe distribution of a Carcharhinid species, the lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris

(17.) Santi Roberts, "Seafood Watch Seafood Report: Monterey Bay Aquarium--Sharks and Dogfish with a Focus on Blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), Sandbar shark (Carcharinus plumbeus), Common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus), Shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), Spiny dog-fish (Squalus acanthias), Dusky smooth hound (smooth dogfish) (Mustelus canis)" (21 December 2005, with stock update as of 4 October 2010) at 93-96.

Sharks and the culinary clash of culture and conservation: why are we not considering the health consequences of shark consumption?

falciformis (single layered spermatozeugmata), have been found in other carcharhinids like the black tip shark Carcharhinus limbatus and the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus (Pratt & Tanaka 1994).

Reproductive biology of the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) off the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico

Australia's commercial shark fisheries take school shark, gummy shark, dusky shark, whiskery shark, sandbar shark and blacktip shark.

When predator becomes prey: shark attacks on swimmers or surfers have a tendency to make headlines. But, there has been less public interest in the insidious depletion of the world's shark populations due to overfishing and other human activities

So, species phyletically far from the great white shark, such as the blue shark (Prionace glauca) and the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), are cold-blooded and eat 0.2 percent to 0.6 percent of their body weight per day.

Diet of the great white shark

For example, one tagged, juvenile sandbar shark, a local summer resident, was recaptured 28 years later.

Public's shark scars healing