Freshwater shark
Appearance
Freshwater sharks are sharks able to live in freshwater lakes and rivers, including:
- the river sharks, Glyphis, true freshwater sharks found in fresh and brackish water in Asia and Australia
- the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, which can swim between salt and fresh water, and are found in tropical rivers around the world.
A number of freshwater cyprinids (which are bony fish and thus quite unrelated to sharks) are also commonly called "freshwater sharks", "sharkminnows" or simply "sharks", particularly in the aquarium fish trade:
- Balantiocheilos melanopterus – Bala shark, tricolor shark, silver shark
- Epalzeorhynchos – typical freshwater "sharks"
- Labeo – labeos
- Puntius denisonii – Roseline shark
- the Mully Catfish