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The great white shark is a large lamnid predator found in temperate oceans, notable as the largest living predatory fish and a frequent subject of tagging studies.
The shortfin mako shark is a fast lamnid predator, notable for high-speed open-ocean hunting and for being among the fastest known sharks.
The salmon shark is a North Pacific lamnid, notable for preying on Pacific salmon and maintaining elevated body temperature in cold subarctic waters.
Carcharodon hastalis is an extinct mackerel shark named by Agassiz in 1843 and often treated as part of the great white shark lineage.
Cosmopolitodus hastalis is a debated name for the broad-toothed mako, a worldwide Oligocene to Pleistocene shark linked to great white ancestry.
The longfin mako shark is a rare oceanic lamnid, notable for its unusually long pectoral fins and warm-water range in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
