walking shark
English
Noun
walking shark (plural walking sharks)
- Any of various species of shark that move by ‘walking’ their fins across the sea bed, especially Hemiscyllium ocellatum (the epaulette shark) or Hemiscyllium halmahera.
- 2007, Alex Mustard, Reefs Revealed, p. 125:
- Given the nickname the walking shark, it is about a metre long and stands up on its pectoral and pelvic fins to walk around on the seabed with a sinuous motion, rather like a lizard, hunting molluscs and crustaceans.
- 2013, Suzanne Goldenberg, “'Walking shark' discovered in Indonesia”, The Guardian, 30 August:
- "This is the third walking shark species to be described from eastern Indonesia in the past six years, which highlights our tremendous shark and ray biodiversity," said Fahmi, a shark expert at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
- 2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 15:
- One of the recent PR successes of the shark conservationists is the ‘walking shark’, which crawls along the sea bottom on its fins and has an appealing little face.
- 2007, Alex Mustard, Reefs Revealed, p. 125: