word - kw’uts’aalhtsu

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Ethnobiological notes: There are several species of large sharks in British Columbian waters, several of which may be referred to by the term kw’uts’aalhtsu. Among the sharks associated with this name are the “mud shark” (the sixgill shark) and the “mackerel shark”, which is also sometimes called the “man-eating shark” (the salmon shark). (Note that the salmon shark is not a true man-eater and that the spiny dogfish is sometimes also called mud shark.)
Binomial name: [Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre) (sixgill shark), Lamna ditropis (Hubbs and Follett) (salmon shark), and possibly others]