Blue shairk
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| Blue shairk | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subcless: | Elasmobranchii |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Faimily: | Carcharhinidae |
| Genus: | Prionace Cantor, 1849 |
| Species: | P. glauca |
| Binomial name | |
| Prionace glauca | |
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| Range o the blue shairk | |
The blue shairk (Prionace glauca) is a species o requiem shairk, in the faimily Carcharhinidae, that inhabits deep watters in the warld's temperate an tropical oceans. Preferrin ceuler watters,[3] blue shairks migrate lang distances, sic as frae New Ingland tae Sooth Americae. The species is leetit as Near Threatened bi the IUCN.
Awtho generally lethargic, thay can muive vera quickly. Blue shairks are viviparous an are notit for lairge litters o 25 tae ower 100 pups. Thay feed primarily on smaw fish an squid, awtho thay can tak lairger prey. Maximum lifespan is still unkent, but it is believit that thay can live up tae 20 years.[4]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived frae the original on 10 Mey 2012. Retrieved 9 Januar 2008. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine - ↑ Stevens, J. (2009) Prionace glauca. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T39381A10222811.en
- ↑ Compagno, Leonard J. V. (1984). Sharks of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp. 521–524, 555–61, 590.
- ↑ Sharks, Emerging Species Profile Sheets, published by the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; undated Archived October 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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- "Prionace glauca". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 November 2005.
- Blue shark, Prionace glauca at marinebio.org
- Blue shark, Prionace glauca at the Encyclopedia o Life
- ARKive – Images and movies of the blue shark (Prionace glauca) Archived 2006-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Canadian Shark research laboratory Archived 2008-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
- BBCNews – 'Jaws' comes to a US beach 3 August 2010.
- BBCNews – Footage of shark which closed New Quay (Wales) beach 8 August 2012.
- Species Description of Prionace glauca at www.shark-references.com
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