PORBEAGLE SHARK
Lamna nasus
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The porbeagle (Lamna nasus) is a common, fast-swimming, potentially dangerous shark.
Porbeagle
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see mako.
More on Porbeagle
Mako - heavy-bodied, fast-swimming shark, genus Isurus, highly prized as a game fish.
Porbeagles are hunted commercially in Norway and Canada where fisheries are regulated. They are also caught there as bycatch, and are the second most common bycatch species in Norway. They are also frequently caught as bycatch by Japanese longliners.
Porbeagle Shark
The porbeagle is a stout shark that is blue-gray on top and white underneath with a white patch on the trailing edge of the first dorsal fin.
Porbeagle
The porbeagle, Lamna nasus, is a large pelagic predatory shark of the family Lamnidae.
Family Lamnidae: Mackerel Sharks, Makos, Porbeagles, White Shark
Family Macropodidae: Kangaroos and wallabies
Family Opheliidae
Family Orthonychidae (logrunners)
Family Oweniidae
Family Pachycephalidae (whistlers and allies) ...
Porbeagle sharks are unique in that they have been known to play tag with other porbeagles, pass seaweed to each other, and toss driftwood out of the water in a manner similar to dolphins.
Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)
Salvin's albatross (Thalassarche salvini)
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)
Common smoothhound (Mustelus mustelus)
Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) ...
The Tiger Shark has a varied diet and because of this it must be able to twist and turn in the water easily when hunting, whereas the Porbeagle shark, ...
Porbeagle (Lamna nasus), a temperate species that occurs outside of our region, has first dorsal origin above free rear tip of pectoral fin, cusplets on teeth, and secondary keel on caudal fin base below main keel on caudal peduncle.
Salmon shark (L. ditropis) Â- Porbeagle (L. nasus)
Megachasmidae
Megachasma ...
Mackerel can reach speeds in excess of 32 kph, which is necessary for survival because they are pursued by some of the fastest creatures in the sea such as porbeagle and mako sharks, porpoises, bluefin tuna, swordfish and harbour seals.
Captain Tom's Guide To New England Sharks
A website about the New England shark species and how to identify them - with heavy emphasis on the blue, thresher, shortfin mako and porbeagle.
They frequently rob other seabirds of their catch and have been known to follow feeding Humpback Whales, Porbeagles and Northern Bluefin Tuna to catch fish driven to the surface by the larger animals.
 See also: Shark, Eagle, Mako, White Shark, Great White Shark
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