Shortfin mako
Isurus oxyrinchus
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: EN - Endangered - facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Family
- Lamnidae
- Genus
- Isurus
Where to Find
Found in 37 diving areas across 26 countries and 10 regions.
- Lord Howe Island, Australia - 102 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 287 records
- Victoria, Australia - 5 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 1325 records
- Fiordland, New Zealand - 17 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 506 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 1183 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 3 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 1 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 1 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 3 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 4 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 436 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 40 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 5 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 2 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 2 records
- Sardinia, Italy - 1 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 2 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 1 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 2 records
- Hawaii, United States - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 2 records