Human shark

The term human shark stands in the broadest sense for shark species that are potentially dangerous to humans. The expression is used as a trivial name for:

• the great white shark or white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias )
• in the plural ( human sharks ) for the family of requiem sharks (Carcharhinidae), to which u. a. belongs to the majority of dangerous species, but not the great white shark

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.