Blue shairk | |
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Conservation status
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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 | |
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]
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