Prionace glauca

Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758). Blue Shark. To 383 cm (12.6 ft) TL; reported but not confirmed to 4.8–6.5 m (15.7–21.3 ft) TL (Compagno 1984). Circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Kodiak Island, western Gulf of Alaska...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae
Prionace
Prionace glauca
Yukon
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific
Milton
Beaufort Sea
Kodiak
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5818648
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818648
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Summary:Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758). Blue Shark. To 383 cm (12.6 ft) TL; reported but not confirmed to 4.8–6.5 m (15.7–21.3 ft) TL (Compagno 1984). Circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Kodiak Island, western Gulf of Alaska (Karinen et al. 1985) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic pelagic; depth: surface to about 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Weigmann 2016). This species may more properly be placed in the genus Carcharhinus (Naylor et al. 2012). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 19, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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