Identify this shark please

[Mike]

Photographed in Belize


Is this same type of shark but pregnant?

 

[FishyJackson]

I think it's a Caribbean Reef Shark (Carcharhinus Perezi)

 

[00wabbit]

That's Jeff.

That jerk owes me money!

 

[knotical]

Have always had trouble differentiating between these two. I think the second picture is a bull shark, based in part on the eye size (a bit smaller in the bull) and the snout ( a bit of a sharper angle in the Caribbean Reef).

 

[LouisJ]

Have always had trouble differentiating between these two. I think the second picture is a bull shark, based in part on the eye size (a bit smaller in the bull) and the snout ( a bit of a sharper angle in the Caribbean Reef).

Juvenile Reefs have sharper snouts than adults. Also, like bony fish, the eye doesn't grow proportional to the body so the eyes are larger relative to their body when young.

 

[BRT]

That's Jeff.

That jerk owes me money!

Usually it is the other way with sharks!

 

[Hank49]

I don't' think the fat one is a bull. The dorsal fin of a bullshark is more forward (or the pectorals are more aft?) and lines up kind of midway of the pectoral fins. This one is behind the pecs.