Carcharhinus leucas
Description
Carcharhinus leucas (Müller & Henle, 1839).
Bull Shark. To 3.5 m (11.5 ft) TL (Tyabji et al. 2020) or perhaps to 3.66 m (12 ft) (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal in warm waters; possibly southern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California); western Pacific Ocean north to about Okinawa, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Reyes-Bonilla et al. 2010), southern Baja California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine and fresh water; depth: surface (Allen and Robertson 2015), 1 m (3 ft) or less to 164 m (538 ft) (min.: Ebert et al., 2013; max.: Lea et al. 2015). A depth record of 500 m (1,640 ft) (Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003) is considered unlikely (Weigmann 2016). Naylor et al. (2012) suggest that this may be a species complex.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller & Henle
- Species
- leucas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus leucas (Muller, 1839) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Tyabji, Z., Wagh, T., Patankar, V., Jabado, R. W. & Sutaria, D. (2020) Catch composition and life history characteristics of sharks and rays (Elasmobranchii) landed in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. PLOS ONE, 15, e 0231069 https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0231069
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Reyes-Bonilla, H., Ayala-Bocos, A., Gonzalez-Romero, S., Sanchez-Alcantara, I., Mendoza, M. W., Bedolla-Guzman, Y. R., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Calderon-Aguilera, L. E. & Olivares-Banuelos, N. C. (2010) Checklist and biogeography of fishes from Guadalupe Island, western Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 51, 195 - 209.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Lea, J. S. E., Humphries, N. E., Clarke, C. R. & Sims, D. W. (2015) To Madagascar and back: long-distance, return migration across open ocdean by a pregnant female bull shark. Journal of Fish Biology, 87, 1313 - 1321. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12805
- Manilo, L. G. & Bogorodsky, S. V. (2003) Taxonomic composition, diversity and distribution of coastal fishes of the Arabian Sea. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, Supplment 1, S 75 - S 149.
- Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 754.1