Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 19

Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Blue Shark. To 383 cm (12.6 ft) TL; reported but not confirmed to 4.8–6.5 m (15.7–21.3 ft) TL ( Compagno 1984). Circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); Kodiak Island, western Gulf of Alaska ( Karinen et al. 1985) to Chile ( Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Oceanic pelagic; depth: surface to about 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Weigmann 2016). This species may more properly be placed in the genus Carcharhinus ( Naylor et al. 2012) .