Species: Prionace glauca, Blue Shark
snout long, narrow
Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Blue Shark
Body very elongate and fusiform; snout long and narrowly rounded; no spiracles; eyes round, with nictitating membrane; teeth serrated, long and triangular, broader and curved on top jaw, center tooth of top jaw very large; five gill slits, last two over pectoral; gill arches with papillae along front edge; 1st dorsal fin low, its origin well behind pectoral fins, center of base nearer pelvics than rear insertion of pectorals; no ridge between dorsals; pectorals very long, narrow, slightly curved, pointed tips; tail base with small keel; tail fin strongly asymmetrical, lower lobe of tail well developed, upper lobe with undulating ridge along its top edge, and a notch under its tip, pits at its base.
Back dark blue, flanks intense blue; belly white; tip of pectoral and anal dark.
Size: 383 cm.
Habitat: oceanic, epipelagic.
Depth: 0-1160 m.
Circumtropical; Southern California to Peru.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Offshore Only
- Offshore
- Water Column Position
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- Mid Water
- Surface
- Water column only
- Near Surface
- Habitat
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- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Pelagic crustacea
- Sea snakes/mammals/turtles/birds
- Sharks/rays
- Data
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Live birth
- No data
- No pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- TEP non-endemic
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America)
- East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West)
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- Regional Endemism
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- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Near threatened
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 383
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 1160