lemon shark

lemon shark
a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.

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      species of shark in the family Carcharhinidae. See carcharhinid.

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