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Family Lamnidae

Animals in the family Lamnidae on Global Animal Guide. The guide features 3 species in this family — each profile answers the most-searched questions first.

Great white shark swimming in clear blue ocean water, showing its grey back, white underside, and powerful body

Vulnerable

Fish

Great White Shark

The ocean's most famous apex predator

Shortfin mako shark with a sleek metallic-blue body swimming through open blue ocean water

Endangered

Fish

Shortfin Mako Shark

The fastest shark in the ocean

Porbeagle shark with white flank patch and stout body gliding through cold Atlantic water

Vulnerable

Fish

Porbeagle

Warm-blooded hunter of cold Atlantic seas