Shark
an English popular name for any individual of the group Selachoidei.
The body is generally elongated; the muzzle, on the under side of which the nostrils are placed, projects over the BLUE SHARK mouth, and the males have claspers (with the function of intermittent organs) attached to the ventral fins. The ova are large and few in number, impregnated, and in some genera developed, within an uterine cavity; in others deposited in a tough, horny case, from which the young fish, carrying a yolk-bag, for its nourishment till it is able to seek food, is discharged; in this stage the gill-laminæ are prolonged into filaments projecting beyond the gill-cavities, but these are soon absorbed. The teeth are generally large, SHARON sharp, and formed for cutting, often with sharks are exclusively carnivorous, and form a solid pavement-like mass. Sharks some of them extremely dangerous to man. The smaller sharks are popularly rough (see SHAGREEN). They are most numerous in tropical seas. sharks are exclusively carnivorous, and some of them extremely dangerous to The smaller sharks are popularly man.
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