An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon
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Fermon, Yves
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Bailly, Nicolas
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Cardiec, Floriane
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Causse, Romain
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Chartrain, Emmanuel
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Chirio, Laurent
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Bruyne, Godefroy De
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Deynat, Pascal
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Hopkins, Carl D.
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Lamboj, Anton
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Mennesson, Marion I.
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Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve
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Paugy, Didier
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Sidlauskas, Brian
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Sullivan, John P.
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Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De
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Vigliotta, Thomas R.
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Zee, Jouke Van Der
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Cybium
2022
46
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10904647
journal article
10.26028/cybium/2022-462-3-001
2101-0315
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.