Blue Shark Litters (Prionace glauca) in progress

 

Photograph Litter size TL embryo* (mm) Mass embryo* (kg) TL fem. (m) M fem. (kg) Capture date Capture location Reference
  40 11 & 13; plus
38 less-developed eggs in uteri
      23 July 1978 Montauk NY, USA Pratt 1979
  82 13   2.64   Jan   Suda 1953
Pratt 1979
Rogerson07.jpg 41

Looks like full-term embryos
(~40-45)

24 male
17 fem
  86 <1970 GB Rogerson 1970

52

37 (mean) embs ventral to fem app smaller due to cam parallax #10 in ventral row is stunted 2.32       Pratt 1979
Fig. 22
  135             Gubanov & Grigor'yev 1975
Pratt01.jpg
 

43 FL
full-term embryo

  2.20 FL       Pratt 1979
Fig. 21
Photograph Litter size TL embryo* (mm) Mass embryo* (kg) TL fem. (m) M fem. (kg) Capture date Capture location Reference
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