Species profile—Lamna nasus (porbeagle)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Lamnidae → Lamna nasus (porbeagle)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Lamnidae
- Scientific name
- Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Common name
- porbeagle
- Type reference
- Bonnaterre, J.P. (1788). Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des trois Regnes de la Nature. Ichthyologie. Paris. 215 pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 35800
- Synonym(s)
- Squalus nasus
Lamna whitleyi
Squalus cornubicus
Isurus nasus - Alternate name(s)
- mackerel shark
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=35800.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
