Salmon Shark

Lamna ditropis

General Status Rank: 
Vagrant
Common Name: 
Salmon Shark
Scientific Name: 
Lamna ditropis
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Fish
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Chordata
Class: 
Chondrichthyes
Order: 
Lamniformes
Family: 
Lamnidae
Distribution

Distribution

coastal and oceanic environments of the subarctic and temperate North Pacific Ocean.https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=salmonshark.main

Number of Occurrences

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has confirmed that the big, sharp-toothed shark netted earlier this week near the western Nunavut community of Kugluktuk was a salmon shark, not its close relative from the east, a porbeagle shark, as some had suggested.https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/shark-netted-in-western-nunavut-is-a-salmon-shark-dfo/
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Vagrant
S Rank: 
SNA
Decision Process Description: 
rank drafted by non-expert (SC) Based on DFO confirmation of specimen in Kugluktuk. Community is further east than NWT waters so the shark had to swimming from west to east passing thru NWT waters.
Last Updated: 
November 1, 2019

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