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Main identification features
- eye large
- 1st dorsal fin origin behind pectoral
- snout short, dark underneath
- pectoral greater than head
Body slender, fusiform; eye relatively large; snout relatively short, bluntly pointed; nostrils on side of snout; teeth long, narrow, not serrated, relatively straight; origin of first dorsal fin a little behind pectoral; 5 long gill slits, all before pectoral; second dorsal and anal fins very small; tail almost symmetrical, semilunar; tail base flattened, with large keel that extends onto tail; pectorals very long, longer than head, tip bluntly pointed; origin of anal under end of base of second dorsal.
Back and sides intense blue; belly white; underside of snout and mouth dusky.
Size: 417 cm.
Habitat: oceanic, inshore when giving birth.
Depth: surface to 760 m.
Southern California to Mexico, occurrence between Mexico and Peru likely but there are no verified records.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ); North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California).
Depth Range Max: 760 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: bony fishes; octopus/squid/cuttlefish.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=33; Southern limit=-9; Western limit=-118; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=42; Longitudinal range=40.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Pelagic.
Global Endemism: Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans); East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West); Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America); East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West); All Pacific (West + Central + East); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Water column.
Inshore Offshore: Offshore; Offshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 417 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; Continent only; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Mid Water; Near Surface; Surface; Water column only;
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- Compagno, L.J.V., 1999., Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In Hamlett W.C. (ed.) Sharks, skates, and rays: the biology of elasmobranch fishes., The John Hopkins University Press:471-498.
- Compagno, L.J.V., 1984., Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of sharks species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Species Catalogue., FAO Fish. Synop. No 125, 4(1):1-249.
- Ebert, D.A., 2001., First Eastern Pacific records of the longfin mako shark, Isurus paucus, Guitar-Manday, 1966., Calif. Fish & Game, 87:117-121.
- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
- Guitart Manday,., 1966., Nuevo nombre para una especie de Tiburón del género Isurus (Elasmobranchii: Isuridae) de aguas Cubanas., Poeyana (Ser. A), 15:1-9.
- Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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