An Investigation of the Feeding Habits of the Bull Shark, Carcharhinus leucas, in the Lake Nicaragua-Rio San Juan System

Authors

Robert E. Tuma, University of Nebraska

Date of this Version

1976

Comments

Published in INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ICHTHYOFAUNA OF NICARAGUAN LAKES, ed. Thomas B. Thorson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1976). Copyright © 1976 School of Life Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

The bull shark or cub shark, Carcharhinus leucas, occurs in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. In the western Atlantic it occurs from New York to southern Brazil.