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Diet. The bull shark is a marine apex predator, capable of taking a variety of prey. The bull shark's diet consists mainly of bony fish and small sharks, including other bull sharks, and stingrays. Their diet can also include turtles, birds, dolphins, terrestrial mammals, crustaceans, and echinoderms. They hunt in murky waters where it is ...
Cestracion japonicus Maclay & Macleay, 1884. The Japanese bullhead shark ( Heterodontus japonicus) is a species of bullhead shark in the family Heterodontidae found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Japan, Korea, and China. This benthic shark occurs at depths of 6–37 m (20–121 ft) over rocky bottoms or kelp beds.
Bullhead shark. The bullhead sharks are members of the genus Heterodontus, the only members of the family Heterodontidae and only living members of the order Heterodontiformes. All are relatively small, with the largest species reaching just 1.65 metres (5.5 ft) in maximum length. They are bottom feeders in tropical and subtropical waters.
The Port Jackson shark ( Heterodontus portusjacksoni) is a nocturnal, [2] oviparous (egg laying) type of bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae, found in the coastal region of southern Australia, including the waters off Port Jackson. It has a large, blunt head with prominent forehead ridges and dark brown harness-like markings on a ...
The Ganges shark ( Glyphis gangeticus) is a critically endangered species of requiem shark found in the Ganges River ( Padma River) and the Brahmaputra River of India and Bangladesh. It is often confused with the more common bull shark ( Carcharhinus leucas ), which also inhabits the Ganges River and is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the ...
Carcharhiniformes / kɑːrkəˈraɪnɪfɔːrmiːz /, the ground sharks, are the largest order of sharks, with over 270 species. They include a number of common types, such as catsharks, swellsharks, and requiem sharks . Members of this order are characterized by the presence of a nictitating membrane over the eye, two dorsal fins, an anal fin ...
As a juvenile, it sometimes acts as a cleaner fish on a reef station; its diet consists of small parasitic crustaceans such as copepods, isopods, and ostracods. [10] When attached to a host, the remora eats parasitic crustaceans, food scraps from its host's feeding activity, and even some small food captured by filtering water through its ...
Bull Shark Bandits airs July 2 at 8 p.m. on National Geographic, July 7 at 10 p.m. on ESPN2 and July 24 at 10 p.m. on Nat Geo Wild.. Shark Eat Shark. Anyone who has ever watched a special set in ...