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Prionace glauca
Description
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).
Notes
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Prionace
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- glauca
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the World. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2. FAO, Rome.
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Karinen, J. F., Wing, B. L. & Straty, R. R. (1985) Records and sightings of fish and invertebrates in the eastern Gulf of Alaska and oceanic phenonmenon related to the 1983 El Nino event. In: Wooster, W. S. & Fluherty, D. L. (Eds.), El Nino North: Nino Effects in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Washington Sea Grant Program, University of Washington, Seattle.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 754.1