Prionace Cantor, 1849

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 336-337

Genus Prionace Cantor, 1849

Blue Shark / āḛé

Prionace Cantor, 1849: 1381 . Type species: Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, 1758 , designated by the ICZN (on official list, Opinion 723.3d, 1965, name no. 1660).

Prionace glauca ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Blue Shark / ỄỌǿḛ / *ḛ

Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, 1758: 235 . No types known; northeastern Atlantic (localities include England and Italy). Local synonymy: Galeus glaucus: Nakamura, 1936: 32 , pl. 14, fig. 1. Prionace glauca: Chen, 1948: 38 ; Chen, 1956: 20; Teng, 1962: 140; Chen, 1963: 70, fig. 20 (THUP 1324); Chen & Yu, 1986: 139; Chen & Joung, 1993: 67, pl. 8 (fig. 8); Shao et al., 2008: 236; Shen & Wu, 2011: 72, figs.

Taiwan voucher material: (2 spec.) NMMB-P 4091 , Taichone , 1 Apr 1961 ; NMMB-P 4096 , Dong-gang , Pingtung, 19 Mar 1961 .

Remarks: Relatively abundant in oceanic Taiwanese waters; major fishing season for this species is May to August at Nan-fang-ao and February to May at Cheng-gong according to Chen et al. (2002).

Conservation status: Near Threatened.