(Editors note: This is not a complete list) Name: Angular angel shark (Squatina guggenheim).
Status: endangered.
Where: western South Atlantic coastal waters from Southern Brazil to Northern Argentina.
Reasons: bycatch by gillnet and bottom trawling fisheries. Name: Barndoor skate (Raja laevis).
Status: endangered.
Where: northwest Atlantic.
Reasons: overfishing.
Other: has been extirpated from large parts of its range in Canadian Atlantic and New England coastal waters Name: Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus).
Status: endangered.
Where: Atlantic, Pacific, Australian and New Zealand coastal waters.
Reasons: overfishing, bycatch.
Other: some local populations have declined up to 80 percent. Name: Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis).
Status: critically endangered or already extinct.
Reasons: overfishing.
Where: Pacific Asian coastal waters. Name: Common sawfish (Pristis pristis).
Status: critically endangered or already extinct.
Reasons: bycatch.
Where: Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Other: once common in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, but is now extirpated from Europe waters and the Mediterranean along with all other sawfishes. Name: Dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus).
Status: endangered.
Where: coastal waters worldwide.
Reasons: overfishing. Name: Freshwater sawfish, Great-tooth sawfish (Pristis microdon ).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Indian Ocean and west Pacific coasts, lagoons and estuaries; freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.
Reasons: overfishing, habitat loss and degradation. Name: Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Ganges-Hooghly river system, India and Pakistan. Name: Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
Status: endangered.
Where: worldwide. Name: Green sawfish (Pristis zijsron).
Status: endangered.
Where: Indian and west Pacific coastal waters and lower reaches of rivers.
Reasons: overfishing, bycatch. Name: Grey nurse shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Australia.
Reasons: overfishing. Name: Largetooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Indian Ocean and west Pacific coasts, lagoons and estuaries; freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.
Reasons: overfishing, bycatch, habitat loss and degradation. Name: Night shark (Carcharhinus signatus).
Status: endangered.
Reasons: overfishing. Name: Pincushion ray (Urogymnus ukpam).
Status: endangered.
Where: coasts, lagoons and estuaries, and freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams of Congo, Gabon, and Nigeria. Name: Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: worldwide.
Reasons: overfishing.
Other: western Atlantic population has been reduced by 85-90% in just ten years by overfishing. Name: Sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus).
Status: endangered.
Where: Australia.
Reasons: overfishing. Name: Silver shark (Balantiocheilos melanopterus).
Status: endangered.
Where: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Reasons: overfishing.
Other: a freshwater shark. Name: Smalltooth sawfish, Wide sawfish (Pristis pectinata).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts, lagoons, and estuaries, and freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.
Reasons: overfishing and loss of habitat.
Other: wholly or nearly extirpated from large areas of its former range in the North Atlantic (Mediterranean, US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico) and Southwest Atlantic coast. Name: Smoothback angel shark (Squatina occulta).
Status: endangered.
Where: western south Atlantic shelf waters (Brazil to Uruaguay.
Reasons: bycatch by gillnet and bottom trawling fisheries. Name: Speartooth shark (Glyphis glyphis).
Status: endangered.
Where: Indo-Pacific coastal waters.
Reasons: development, overfishing and habitat destruction. Name: Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias).
Status: endangered.
Where: temperate oceans worldwide.
Reasons: overfishing. Name: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus).
Status: endangered.
Reasons: overfishing. Name: Whitefin topeshark (Hemitriakis leucoperiptera).
Status: endangered.
Where: Philippine coastal waters.
Reasons: overfishing. | 
