Carcharhinus leucas

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Carcharhiniformes; Carcharhinidae; Carcharhinus; Carcharhinus leucas; Yukon; Baja; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5818631; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818631

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. Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 18, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008