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Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)🦈

Photo: João D'Andretta · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesCarcharhiniformesCarcharhinidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Bull shark

Carcharhinus leucas (Müller & Henle, 1839)

公牛鲨（學名：Carcharhinus leucas、低鰭真鯊)，分布於熱帶及亞熱帶海域、多個河流系統及部分湖泊。是一種溫暖及沿岸淺水帶常見的鯊魚。 為軟骨魚綱真鯊目真鯊科的其中一種，被IUCN列為易危保育類動物。不像其他的海鯊，公牛鯊可以在淡水中活動，但並非真正的淡水鯊魚。牠們可以在河流出沒，因此是造成近岸攻擊人類的元兇，包括很多被認為是其他物種造成的個案。

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≈ 2.8× your weight
Also called
Carcharhinus leucas
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
174 kg
Body length
2.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
32 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bull shark

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
174 kgrecord 317 kg · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.6 mrecord 3.6 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female4 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
32 yearsrecord 32 years · FishBase
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 10
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.31
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 4.31 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
174 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bull shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyCarcharhinidae
  6. ›genusCarcharhinus
  7. ›speciesCarcharhinus leucas
Full lineage
  1. subphylumVertebrata
  2. superclassGnathostomata
  3. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  4. subclassElasmobranchii
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
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In other languages
公牛鯊 (zh), Bullenhai (de), żarłacz tępogłowy (pl), כריש שורי (he), 황소상어 (ko), Requin-bouledogue (fr) … and 26 more languages
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Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)Bull shark (2007)
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