Species Detail - Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Chondrichthyans Of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Prionace glauca
Blue Shark
NBNSYS0000188591 RecommendedWell-formed
Threatened Species: Near threatened
prgla
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Cartilagenous fish (Chondrichthyes)
Species
1
0
1
09/12/1999
09/12/1999
23 May (recorded in 2016)
9 December (recorded in 1999)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Chondrichthyans Of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Blue Shark (Prionace glauca), accessed 24 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/259/Species/15658

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)