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:
“Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,—how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)