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Hope you like it, the enty info and smaller messages are full of great info, especially regarding the clothes and body structures of the monsters. Stuff we wouldn't know otherwise. For instance:

>Mershark skin differs in roughness, white parts are smoother, blue parts rougher

This time, it's the shark mermaid with a delinquent reputation but a delicate spirit, "Mershark".
Her name is a combination of "Mermaid" and "Shark".
In old English, the "Mere" in Mermaid means "sea" and "maid" is obviously maiden, so "Sharkmaid" would be more correct in that sense, but thinking about the impression a name would leave more than etymology, plus the fact that I'm going to be introducing a "Merlion" eventually, I wanted the mermaid family to have that unifying "Mer-" prefix, so that's how she got her name.

Their behavior is generally inspired by real life sharks. Like in the Encyclopedia where a monster girl that's overly sensitive to signs of a male will be driven into heat, in reality when sharks are surrounded by large amounts of prey, the amount of information becomes too much for them to process, and they enter a state called a "feeding frenzy", which seems to cause them to try and bite everything around them indiscriminately.

The Mershark has a frightening appearance, and at times really is ferocious and violent, yet it's in their nature to show concern and kindness for humans due to being mermaids, followers of Poseidon, so they do possess the calm temperament of other sea monsters to some extent as well.
They're sensitive to the smell of blood, in fact... that's actually the first thing I came up with for them when I dropped a shark into the Encyclopedia world.