The bull shark, carcharhinus leucas (valenciennes, 1841), from the usumacinta river, Tabasco, Mexico, with notes on its serum composition and osmolarity

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-192

  Sosa Nishizaki, Oscar ^a,d   Taniuchi, Toru ^b   Ishihara, Hajime ^c   Shimizu, Makoto ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Suido sha Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bull shark; Freshwater elasmobranchs; Osmoregulation; Urea contents; Usumacinta River

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008958216     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v24i2.746     Document Type: Article

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