Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 inspiration for "Jaws"—may be the lesser known bull shark." Biologists George A. Llano and Richard Ellis suggest that a bull shark could have been responsible for the fatal Jersey Shore attacks. Bull sharks swim from the ocean into freshwater rivers and streams and have attacked people around the world. In his book "Sharks: Attacks on Man" (1975), Llano writes, Ellis points out that the great white "is an oceanic species, and Schleisser's shark was caught in the ocean. To find it swimming in a tidal creek is, to say the least, unusual, and may even be impossible. The bull shark,
Finetooth shark and should be handled with caution. The finetooth shark was originally described as "Carcharias (Aprionodon) isodon" by French zoologist Achille Valenciennes, in Müller and Henle's 1839 "Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen". The type specimen is a 65-cm (26-in) juvenile male, possibly caught off New York. This species was later moved to the genus "Carcharhinus". The specific epithet "isodon" means "equal teeth" in Greek, and refers to the similar number of teeth in the upper and lower jaws. This species may also be referred to as the eventooth shark, smoothtooth shark, or night shark (usually used for "C. signatus"). As is the