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Bull Shark ( female )

Carcharhinus leucas

Description:

Photo take at -60 ft on a sand bottom near to a coral wall, another female checking us around, really big maybe 3.5 mt long. Heavy set body. Broad, short snout. Eyes proportionately small. First dorsal large and pointed. Upper body uniformly grey fading to paler grey on the belly. Tips of all fins and trailing edge of caudal fin are sometimes dusky. No interdorsal ridge.The bull shark is the best known of 43 species of elasmobranch in ten genera and four families to have been reported in fresh water.

Habitat:

Find it in Turbid inshore waters, lagoons, estuaries, freshwater rivers and lakes, coastlines, and reef environments down to 150 mt. The Bull shark is famous for its habit of occasionally swimming upstream hundreds of miles in some river systems such as the Mississippi, Amazon, Zambezi, and Lake Nicaragua. Diet consists of many food types including bony fishes, turtles, seals, crabs, and squid, find worlwide.

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8 Comments

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Thanks Maria :)

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

nice series!

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Thanks Argy , Marta and Scott :)

ScottHarte
ScottHarte 11 years ago

like normal, lovely series

The MnMs
The MnMs 11 years ago

Nice spotting! I saw them while diving in different places of the Caribbean but did not have a nice camera back then. Nice that you can share with us :-)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Great stuff Gerardo. If there's a shark to fear it's the bull. Thanks.

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Yes Ava they are Remoras

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

Are those remora on the shark? If so, you can add this to the simbiotic relationships mission at: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7987...

Gerardo Aizpuru
Spotted by
Gerardo Aizpuru

Mexico

Spotted on Nov 16, 2012
Submitted on Nov 16, 2012

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