An Unprovoked Attack by a Blue Shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) on a Spear Fisherman in Terceira Island, Azores, Northeast Atlantic

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An Unprovoked Attack by a Blue Shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) on a Spear Fisherman in Terceira Island, Azores, Northeast Atlantic João Pedro Barreiros, Otto B.F. Gadig, Vidal Haddad Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 371-372 (September 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2014.03.014 Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 An adult blue shark Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758), showing (A) its main body diagnostic features, and (B) the right anterolateral view of the jaws of a subadult specimen (B). Photographs by H. Wes Pratt (A) and Otto B. F. Gadig (B). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2014 25, 371-372DOI: (10.1016/j.wem.2014.03.014) Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 The victim’s flipper showing the tooth marks made by the attack of a 2.1 m total length blue shark, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal. Photograph by João Pedro Barreiros. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2014 25, 371-372DOI: (10.1016/j.wem.2014.03.014) Copyright © 2014 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions