Calcium and Other Ions in Blood and Skeleton of Nicaraguan Fresh-Water Shark

M. R. Urist
1962 Science  
A bstract. The bull shark, Carcharhinus lellcas, employing archaic but effective means of regulating the physical-chemical composition of its body fluids, thrives in tropical fresh-water rivers and lakes. The ionic strength of the serum and the concentrations of total solutes, calcium, urea, and other ions are below the levels found in marine elasmobranchs but higher than the levels in teleosts. The patterns of the calcium deposits of the vertebrae are identical in marine and fresh-water subspecies.
doi:10.1126/science.137.3534.984-a pmid:13923921 fatcat:y76zrb3mzzd5xcuu6ioyq2p53a