Use familiar species
This page should lead with the coastal sharks readers are most likely to search for and recognize.
Topic hub
Coastal Sharks: A Reader's Guide to Common Nearshore Species
The site already has enough coastal species to justify a real nearshore guide. This page works as a beginner-friendly replacement for the older thin coastal landing.
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Keep the habitat practical
A nearshore guide works best when it stays focused on surf, bay, estuary, and shelf-edge context.
Let compare pages do the fine sorting
Blacktip versus spinner and bull versus lemon are better as dedicated follow-up pages.
Useful next pages
Keep moving through the field guide with the pages that make this one more useful.
Blacktip Shark
A useful coastal anchor species.
Blacktip Shark vs Spinner Shark
A practical coastal comparison guide.
Bull Shark vs Lemon Shark
A calmer side-by-side coastal guide.
Keep the guide offline
Pocket Shark is built as an offline shark field guide for iPhone and iPad, so the same comparisons, glossary notes, and species context can stay with you away from a browser.
Get the field guide on the App Store