Belize country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Aquaculture: | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Also Ref. 26340.
National Checklist: Belize Biodiversity Information System - Fish
Country Information: httpss://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bh.html
National Fisheries Authority: https://www.caricom-fisheries.com/belize-fisheries
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Compagno, L.J.V., 1984
National Database: Belize Biodiversity Information System

Classificação / Names

Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias) (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Carcharhinidae (Requiem sharks)
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Common names from other countries

Акула синяя, Peau bleue, Tiburón azul, ... more

Referência principal

Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. (Ref. 244)
Referências | Bibliografia | Coordenador : Compagno, Leonard J.V. | Colaboradores

Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Max length : 400 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 35388); common length : 335 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 5217); Peso máx. publicado: 205.9 kg (Ref. 40637); Idade máx. registada: 20 anos (Ref. 27347)

Length at first maturity
L_m 206.2, range 170 - 221 cm

Ambiente

; marinhas; estuarina; oceanódromos (Ref. 51243); intervalo de profundidade 1 - 1000 m (Ref. 89422), usually 80 - 220 m (Ref. 55193)

Clima / Intervalo

Subtropical; 7°C - 21°C (Ref. 244), preferred 25°C (Ref. 107945); 66°N - 55°S, 180°W - 180°E

Distribuição

Circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters. Western Atlantic: Newfoundland, Canada to Argentina. Central Atlantic. Eastern Atlantic: Norway to South Africa, including the Mediterranean. Indo-West Pacific: East Africa to Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Caledonia, and New Zealand. Eastern Pacific: Gulf of Alaska to Chile. Probably the widest ranging chondrichthyian. Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (Ref. 26139).
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Descrição suscinta

Espinhos dorsais (total): 0; Raios dorsais (total): 0; Espinhos anais 0; Raios anais : 0. A slim, graceful blue shark with a long, conical snout, large eyes, and curved triangular upper teeth with saw edges; pectorals long and narrow; no interdorsal ridge (Ref. 5578). Dark blue dorsally, bright blue on the sides, white ventrally (Ref. 5578). Tips of pectoral fins and anal fin dusky (Ref. 9997).

Oceanic, but may be found close inshore where the continental shelf is narrow (Ref. 6871, 58302). Usually found to at least 150 m (Ref. 26938). Reported from estuaries (Ref. 26340). Epipelagic, occasionally occurs in littoral areas (Ref. 58302). Feeds on fishes (herring, silver hake, white hake, red hake, cod, haddock, pollock, mackerel, butterfish, sea raven and flounders (Ref. 5951)), small sharks, squids, pelagic red crabs, cetacean carrion, occasional sea birds and garbage (Ref. 5578). Viviparous (Ref. 50449). Sexual dimorphism occurs in skin thickness of maturing and adult females (Ref. 49562). May travel considerable distances (one specimen tagged in New Zealand was recaptured 1,200 km off the coast of Chile) (Ref. 26346). Potentially dangerous to humans (Ref. 6871, 13513). Marketed fresh, dried or salted, and frozen; meat utilized for consumption, hides for leather and fins for soup (Ref. 9987). Sexually mature at 250 cm long and 4-5 years old. The female gives birth up to 80 young measuring 40 cm long, gestation lasts almost a year (Ref. 35388). Produces from 4 to 135 young a litter (Ref. 26938).

Status na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 115185)

Quase ameaçada (NT)

Perigo para os humanos

Traumatogenic (Ref. 4690)

Uso pelos humanos

Pescarias: pouco comercial; peixe esportivo: sim

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Estimates of some properties based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805)
PD₅₀ = 1.0000 many relatives (e.g. carps) 0.5 - 2.0 few relatives (e.g. lungfishes)

Nível Trófico (Ref. 69278)
4.4 ±0.2 se; Based on diet studies.

Resiliência (Ref. 69278)
Muito baixo, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população maior que 14 anos (rm=0.031; K=0.16; tm=6; tmax=20; Fec=4-135)

Vulnerabilidade (Ref. 59153)
Very high vulnerability (77 of 100)

Categoria de preço (Ref. 80766)
Medium

Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)