Several species of reef-associated sharks are known as reef sharks:
- Blacktip reef shark, Carcharhinus melanopterus
- Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezii
- Grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
- Whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus
Additionally, The United States Coast Guard has a cutter commissioned as the USCGC Reef Shark.
Famous quotes containing the words reef and/or shark:
“As the bird trims her to the gale,
I trim myself to the storm of time,
I man the rudder, reef the sail,
Obey the voice at eve obeyed in prime:
“Lowly faithful, banish fear,
Right onward drive unharmed;
The port, well worth the cruise, is near,
And every wave is charmed.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)