Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 96-97

Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 400 cm TL

Water type: marine, brackish

Environment: pelagic-oceanic

Depth range: 1-1000 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: NT – Near threatened (A2bd / 2019)

Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters. Eastern Atlantic: known from Norway to South Africa, including the Mediterranean. Probably the widest ranging chondrichthyans. Observed in high sea along the coast of Gabon (Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. com.). Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 UNCLOS.