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Lamna nasus Fiona Xu 6/4/11 Brief introduction This active shark wanders about the ocean, often aggregating in small schools. It is an opportunistic hunter that swims strongly in pursuit of prey, and on calm days their triangular dorsal fin followed by the tip of the caudal fin can be seen cutting through the waters surface. It feeds primarily on a wide range of bony fish such as mackerel, hake, herring and haddock, but cephalopods, such as squid and cuttlefish, are also consumed. The porbeagle has been known to annoy fishermen by scavenging cod and other fish from longlines.?When porbeagles mate, the male bites the female to hold her in place while they copulate. They are ovoviviparous sharks, and thus embryos develop within the females uterus without forming a placental connection. Instead, the foetuses obtain nutrition by feeding on fertilised eggs within the uterus. They possess fang-like teeth to tear open the egg capsules, and their stomachs become greatly swollen by feeding on the masses of yolk. The gestation period is thought last for about eight or nine months, with litters of one to five pups born in the spring and summer in the northern hemisphere, or between April and September in the southern hemisphere. Phylogeny Family: Lamnidae Class: Chondrichthyes Other members: L. ditropis C. carcharias I. oxyrinchus Characteristics Size: 350 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 4645)); max. published weight: 230.0 kg (Ref. 40637); max. reported age: 30 years (Ref. 247) Appearance: A stout, spindle-shaped shark with large black eyes, a sharp, conical snout, and small, smooth-edged, narrow teeth with side cusps (Ref. 5578). Dark grey above, white below, without blotches (Ref. 6581); rear tip of 1st dorsal abruptly white (Ref. 5578). Biology: Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover m