Blue Shark
Prionace glauca
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Prionace
Where to Find
Found in 48 diving areas across 27 countries and 8 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 130 records
- Victoria, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 186 records
- Fiordland, New Zealand - 406 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 77 records
- Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand - 170 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 5 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 6 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 2 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Baa Atoll, Maldives - 29 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 36 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 16 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 25 records
- Vaavu Atoll, Maldives - 7 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 216 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Corsica, France - 21 records
- Marseille & Calanques, France - 17 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 6 records
- Naples & Campania, Italy - 2 records
- Portofino & Liguria, Italy - 1 records
- Sardinia, Italy - 10 records
- Algarve & Berlengas, Portugal - 5 records
- Azores, Portugal - 30 records
- Medes Islands, Spain - 36 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 6 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 1 records
- Newfoundland, Canada - 1 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 14600 records
- Alaska, United States - 62 records
- Hawaii, United States - 6 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 10 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records