"walking shark" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Alex Mustard, Reefs Revealed, page 125:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2013 August 30, Suzanne Goldenberg, “'Walking shark' discovered in Indonesia”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "\"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.",
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          "ref": "2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "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."
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