First photographic inland record of the Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (müller and henle 1839) (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in Java, Indonesia

Tony, Frans; Hadiratul, Kudsiah; Iskandar, Rina; Rifa"i, Muhammad Ahsin; Syamsu Hidayat, Achmad

First photographic inland record of the Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (müller and henle 1839) (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in Java, Indonesia

Tony, Frans; Hadiratul, Kudsiah; Iskandar, Rina; Rifa"i, Muhammad Ahsin; Syamsu Hidayat, Achmad

URI: https://repo-dosen.ulm.ac.id//handle/123456789/36544

Date: 2022-01-28

Abstract:

A single pecimen of a sub-adult Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (Müller and Henle, 1839) with c.104 cm of total length was landed and photographed on 18 October 2014 in Ciwulan River, West Java Province, Java Island, Indonesia. This rare finding represents the first-ever known record of C. leucas in Javan freshwaters, and only the fifth freshwater record in Indonesia besides former records of C. leucas from the islands ofWest- Papua, Sumatra, Borneo, and Celebes.

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