Shark ID Guides
Our ID guides provide clear and accurate information for identifying 41 species of shark that can be found in the British Isles and Northeast Atlantic.
The accompanying Pocket Guides provide a simplified, rapid and accurate key for identifying 31 species of shark found in the British Isles.
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Please note: all our resources are created for personal use only. All content (including illustrations) in our ID Guides are copyrighted to the Shark Trust/Marc Dando. If, as an organisation, you would like to use this information to create bespoke ID guides, please contact us first (enquiries@sharktrust.org)
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Angelshark
Squatina squatina
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Angular Roughshark
Oxynotus centrina
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Basking Shark
Cetorhinus maximus
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Bigeye Thresher Shark
Alopias superciliosus
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Birdbeak Dogfish
Deania calcea
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Black Dogfish
Centroscyllium fabricii
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Blackmouth Catshark
Galeus melastomus
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Blue Shark
Prionace glauca
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Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
Hexanchus griseus
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Bramble Shark
Echinorhinus brucus
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Common Smoothhound
Mustelus mustelus
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Common Thresher Shark
Alopias vulpinus
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Frilled Shark
Chlamydoselachus anguineus
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Ghost Catshark
Apristurus manis
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Great Lanternshark
Etmopterus princeps
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Greenland Shark
Somniosus microcephalus
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Iceland Catshark
Apristurus laurussonii
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Kitefin Shark
Dalatias licha
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Knifetooth Dogfish
Scymnodon ringens
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Leafscale Gulper
Centrophorus squamosus
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Longnose Velvet Dogfish
Centroselachus crepidater
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Mouse Catshark
Galeus murinus
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Nursehound
Scyliorhinus stellaris
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Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Carcharhinus longimanus
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Porbeagle
Lamna nasus
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Portuguese Dogfish
Centroscymnus coelolepis
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Rough Longnose Dogfish
Deania hystricosa
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Sailfin Roughshark
Oxynotus paradoxus
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Sharpnose Sevengill Shark
Heptranchias perlo
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Shortfin Mako Shark
Isurus oxyrinchus
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Smalleye Catshark
Apristurus microps
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Smallspotted Catshark
Scyliorhinus canicula
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Smalltooth Sandtiger
Odontaspis ferox
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Smooth Hammerhead Shark
Sphyrna zygaena
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Spurdog
Squalus acanthias
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Starry Smoothhound
Mustelus asterias
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Tiger Shark
Galeocerdo cuvier
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Tope
Galeorhinus galeus
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Velvet Belly Lanternshark
Etmopterus spinax
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White Ghost Catshark
Apristurus aphyodes
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White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias