‹ Fish Finder· #571
Blue Shark
Prionace glauca
Bislamasak— names this kind of animal, not this species alone
- Group
- Shark & ray
- Habitat
- Open water
- Max size
- 4.0 m
- Depth
- 1-220 m
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
The blue shark, also known as the great blue shark, is a species of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae which inhabits deep waters in the world's temperate and tropical oceans. It is the only living species of genus Prionace. An extinct species, P. clarki, is known from teeth from California of the Late Pliocene. Averaging around 3.1 m (10 ft) and preferring cooler waters, the blue shark migrates long distances, such as from New England to South America. It is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.
Adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Behaviour
Slender, long-snouted and deep blue above: an open-ocean shark that rarely comes near a reef.