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Carcharhinus leucas
Photo take at -60 ft on a sand bottom near to a coral wall, this is my first bull shark dive of this season finally the females are arriving to birth in this waters. Wonderful encounter around 7 sharks in the area WOW i love this beauty's i just can´t get out of the water. 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.
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.
8 Comments
Thanks Ali :)
beautiful!
was this taken in a tank ... probably
Thanks Peter and Sarala :)
Amazing!
Wow you're a brave man, Gerardo!
Indeed Argy :)
Wow solid aren't they. :)