Order Carcharhiniformes

Animals in the order Carcharhiniformes on Global Animal Guide. The guide features 6 species in this order — each profile answers the most-searched questions first.

Hammerhead shark with its distinctive wide flat head swimming in blue water

Critically Endangered

Fish

Hammerhead Shark

The shark with a head like a hammer

Tiger shark with faint dark stripes swimming through clear blue tropical water

Near Threatened

Fish

Tiger Shark

The wide-ranging scavenger of warm seas

Lemon shark cruising mangrove shallows with pale yellow sides and broad blunt snout

Vulnerable

Fish

Lemon Shark

Yellow coastal shark of mangrove nurseries

Oceanic whitetip shark with rounded dorsal fin and mottled white-tipped pectoral fins in blue water

Critically Endangered

Fish

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

Critically Endangered lord of the open ocean

Bonnethead shark with rounded hammer head cruising seagrass bed in clear shallows

Endangered

Fish

Bonnethead

Seagrass-munching hammerhead of warm shallows

Stocky grey bull shark swimming through murky coastal water near the seabed

Vulnerable

Fish

Bull Shark

The shark that swims into freshwater