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Lamna
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Lamna

Lamna is a genus of mackerel sharks in the family Lamnidae, containing two extant species: the porbeagle (L. nasus) of the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere, and the salmon shark (L. ditropis) of the North Pacific.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Salmon Shark

speciesLamna ditropis

Porbeagle

speciesLamna nasus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62740.