What is Lemon shark?
{{Taxobox | name = Lemon shark | image = Lemonshark.jpg | image_caption = A Lemon shark swimming with [[Remora]]s in the [[Bahamas]] | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Chondrichthyes]] | ordo = [[Carcharhiniformes]] | familia = [[Carcharhinidae]] | genus = ''[[Negaprion]]'' | species = '''''N.brevirostris''''' | range_map = Negaprion_brevirostris_distmap.png | range_map_caption = Range of the Lemon shark | synonyms = ''Carcharias fronto'' <small>Jordan & Gilbert, 1882</small><br /> ''Hypoprion brevirostris'' <small>Poey, 1868</small> }} The '''Lemon shark''' is a shark that gets its name from its deep [[yellow]] back. Its belly is off-white. Lemon sharks are usually eight to ten feet long. They have long, sharp [[tooth|teeth]] for catching slippery [[fish]]. Lemon sharks are common on the southeast coast of the [[United States of America]].<ref>{{cite book |url= |title= Magic School Bus, Shark Escape |last= Cole |first= Joanne |author2= Bruce Degen |year= 2001 |publisher= Scholastic Inc. |location= United States of America |isbn= 0-439-31432-1 |pages= 83 }}</ref> The jaws of a Lemon Shark are wide and are not easily opened repeativley. The jaws are opened by muscle activity in the dorsal and ventral preorbitalis. (midventral surface of the chondrocranium) It's function is to allow the shark to open its mouth to eat or consume its prey and use it's teeth properly in order to eat. == Description== The Lemon shark gets its name from the fact that it is yellow in colour. The underside is usually white or a lighter yellowish colour. Besides yellow, the Lemon shark is also brown and olive grey in colour. The Lemon shark is stocky, blunt-nosed, and has two dorsal fins of similar size and shape. The first dorsal fin is low and positioned at the back of the pectoral fins, and the second dorsal is of similar shape and size and positioned at the front of the anal fin. The pelvic fin weakly concave (curving inwards) rear margins, and the pectoral fin's