Editing Ganges shark (section)

==Distribution==
The Ganges shark, as its name suggests, is largely restricted to the rivers of eastern and northeastern India, particularly the [[Hooghly River]] of [[West Bengal]], and the [[Ganges]], [[Brahmaputra]], and [[Mahanadi river|Mahanadi]] in [[Bihar]], [[Assam]], and [[Odisha]], respectively. It is typically found in the middle to lower reaches of a river.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glyphis gangeticus |publisher=Carnivora forum |url=http://carnivoraforum.com/topic/9333335/1 |access-date=6 December 2012}}</ref> One found in 2018 in a [[Mumbai]] fish market may have come from somewhere along the banks of the [[Arabian Sea]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jabado |first1=R. W. |last2=Kyne |first2=P. M. |last3=Nazareth |first3=E. |last4=Sutaria |first4=D. N. |date=May 2018 |title=A rare contemporary record of the Critically Endangered Ganges shark Glyphis gangeticus |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.13619 |journal=Journal of Fish Biology |language=en |volume=92 |issue=5 |pages=1663–1669 |doi=10.1111/jfb.13619 |pmid=29611178 |bibcode=2018JFBio..92.1663J |issn=0022-1112|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In theory, ''G. gangeticus'' could occur in shallow marine estuaries; however, no marine records of the species have been verified to date. Originally, the species was assigned a wide range in the Indo-West Pacific, but this was found to be mostly based on other species of requiem sharks, particularly members of the genus ''Carcharhinus''.<ref name=Compagno2005/>

Most literature records and specimens labelled as this species are in fact bull sharks (''Carcharhinus leucas'') or other carcharhinid species. An extensive 10-year search produced only a few specimens, caught in 1996 in the Ganges River.<ref>{{cite book |last=Compagno |first=L. J. V. |title='Freshwater and estuarine elasmobranch surveys in the Indo-Pacific region: threats, distribution and speciation'. In: S.L. Fowler, T.M. Reed and F.A. Dipper (eds) Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management; Proceedings of the International Seminar and Workshop, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1997 |year=2002 |publisher=IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group |location=Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK}}</ref>