How many different kinds of sharks are there?

Answer 1

There are more than 440 known species of shark, and these can be classified amongst 8 different orders. The most widely known sharks belong to the following orders:

Squaliformes: Includes dogfish.

Orectolobiformes (or carpet sharks): Include zebra shark and nursing shark.

Carcharhiniformes (or groundsharks): Include tiger shark, reef sharks and hammerhead shark.

Lamniformes (or mackerel sharks): Include thresher shark, mako shark and great white shark.

Answer 2

There are over four hundred and seventy species of shark in the world today. These range from the gargantuan whale shark, which can measure sixty feet in length, to the small and sweet dwarf lanternshark, which measures at most eight and a half inches.
there are about over 375 species and still counting because almost every other dive divers make they discover more and more.
I know for certain there are over 400 species of sharks. Ex: great white, great hammerhead

AnswerThere are between 375 and 475 different species of shark. Answer

There are more than 360 described species of sharks split across eight orders of sharks. Some would include the following.

• Cow Sharks
• Frilled Sharks
• Bramble Sharks
• Saw Sharks
• Angle Sharks
• Whale Sharks
• Hammerhead Sharks
• Thresher Sharks
• Great White Sharks
• Basking sharks
• dog fish
• cookie cutter sharks
• blue sharks
• bull sharks
• tiger sharks

  Some small sharks make good pets.

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  One of the types of sharks above is known to be a bigger man eater than the Great white which over the years has earned itself a half true reputation. The Bull shark has attacked in many different areas only these are all fresh water rivers. Around a year ago a female Bull shark was caught in Breede river (South Africa) she was larger than any other Bull shark caught.

The shark is a fascinating creature, surrounded by myth and misconception. To many, sharks symbolize the very essence of ruthlessness, representing the ultimate savages of the natural world. Though many people would rather not intentionally socialize with these fearsome predators of the depths, I find it thoroughly captivating to swim among sharks. Sharks and their direct predecessors have been swimming in the world's oceans for well over 300 million years, and were going about their business long before dinosaurs walked the Earth. The fact that sharks have survived for so long without changing very much is a real tribute to the effectiveness of their anatomy.

Sharks are fishes, contained within the taxonomic class called Chondrichthyes (meaning "cartilage-fish"). Sharks and other cartilaginous fishes (rays, skates, and ratfishes) differ from the bony fishes in that they have a cartilaginous skeleton, and lack a swim bladder. This class of fishes contains over 600 species worldwide, including over 300 species of sharks.

Sometimes sharks are referred to as primitive creatures. They are an ancient group of animals, so it might seem correct to assume that they are primitive. Unfortunately, this assumption is wrong. Recent studies have shown that sharks are, in fact, quite sophisticated. Most sharks have an incredible sense of smell. These sharks can detect one drop of blood dissolved in as much as one million gallons of water. Many sharks can detect the extremely minute electrical currents generated by the muscles of swimming fish. Some sharks can sense at a great distance the tiny pressure variations generated by an injured fish struggling to swim. Contrary to popular opinion, most sharks have excellent low light vision, thanks to a mirror located behind the retina. This mirror reflects light through the retina a second time. A shark may have many rows of teeth. When an old tooth breaks or becomes too dull, a new one rotates into place. Are these the attributes of a primitive animal?

Sharks come in many shapes and sizes. The largest fish in the ocean is, in fact, the tremendous whale shark, reaching about 60 feet in length. The smallest known shark is only a few inches long when fully grown. While many sharks do have conspicuous teeth, many of these animals eat only small invertebrates. Other sharks have no teeth at all, feeding by straining plankton from the water much like the balleen whales do.

The myth that sharks are maneaters has been established throughout history with startling regularity. The fact is, you are much more likely to be hit by a car, bitten by a dog, or even struck by lightning than you are to be attacked by a shark, except under the most unusual of circumstances. Certainly sharks can eat people, but the simple fact is that they rarely do. They are no more dangerous to people than any other large predator, like a tiger or a lion. Why do we label the shark a killer, while we call the lion magnificent?

Sharks are very important in the ocean ecosystem. Like most top predators, sharks feed on the sick and weak, thereby keeping the schools of fish on which they feed healthy. Lions and tigers serve the same role in their respective ecosystems, removing the weaker animals from the herds, and keeping the gene pool strong. Although it has long been said "The only good shark is a dead one," sharks have a very important role in the ocean ecosystem, and they most certainly are not better off dead. Believe it or not, we need sharks in the oceans.

Shark populations are dwindling due to heavy commercial fishing and the general attitude that they are nothing more than a nuisance. This shortsighted view of the ocean ecosystem is dangerous--a shortage of sharks could be disastrous to the health of ocean food chains, including but certainly not limited to the ones we rely upon for food resources. We humans are already placing enough strain on these food chains as it is, without adding the shark to the equation. We must respect these animals and give them the space they need to live. Sharks really are beautiful animals...once you get to know them.

Here are some of the 500 shark species.

the specific shark.

Angel Shark

Bahamas Sawshark

Basking Shark

Blacknose Shark

Blacktail Reef Shark

Blacktip Shark

Blind Shark

Bonnethead Shark

Blue Shark

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark

Broadnose Sevengill Shark

Brownbanded Bamboo Shark

Bull Shark

California Hornshark

Caribbean Sharpnose shark

Caribbean Reef Shark

Colcloughs Shark

Cookie Cutter Shark

Common Sawshark

Coral Catshark

Draughtsboard Shark

Crested Bullhead Shark

Dusky Shark

Freycinets Epaulette Shark

Epaulette Shark

Frilled Shark

Galapagos Shark

Galapagos Bullhead Shark

Ganges Shark

Goblin Shark

Golden Hammerhead Shark

Graceful Shark

Gray Reef Shark

Great White Shark

Greenland Shark

Gummy Shark

Gulf Catshark

Hammerhead Shark

Horn Shark

Leopard Shark

Lemon Shark

Longnose Velvet Dogfish

Ornate Wobbegong

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

Mako Shark

Megamouth

Milk Shark

Mexican Bullhead

Necklace Carpet Shark

Nurse Shark

Pigeye Shark

Porbeagle Shark

Piked Dogfish

Portuguese Dogfish

Prickly Dogfish

Port Jackson Shark

Rusty Carpet Shark

Salmon Shark

Sailfin Roughshark

Sand Tiger Shark

Sandbar Shark

Scalloped Hammerhead Shark

Sharpnose Sevengill Shark

Seal Shark

Shortnose Spurdog Shark

Sicklefin Lemon Shark

Shortspine Spurdog Shark

Silky Shark

Smooth Hammerhead Shark

Silvertip Shark

Smalltooth Sand tiger Shark

Southern Lantern Shark

Soupfin Shark

Speckled Epaulette

Spiny Dogfish Shark

Spinner Shark

Spotted Wobbegong

Striped Cat Shark

Starry Smooth Hound Shark

Swell Shark

Tasmanian Numbfish

Tawny Nurse Shark

Tasseled Wobbegong

Thresher Shark

Tiger Shark

Wards Wobbegong Shark

Whale Shark

Whitespotted Bamboo Shark

Whitetip Reef Shark

Winghead Shark

Zebra Shark

It's amazing how many types of sharks there are, isn't it?
all up there are 354 species of sharks

Answer 3

Out of 400 species of shark there are more than 100 species that are on the endangered list. Some of these are the Atlantic Ghost Cat shark, the Angel shark, and the banded cat shark.

Answer 4

this is a meanie just kidden :)

Answer 5

There are about 5,000 species.

Answer 6

350