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Alopias pelagicus Nakamura 1935
Description
Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935.
Pelagic Thresher. To 4.28 m (14.04 ft) TL (Weigman 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); southern California (Hanan et al. 1993) to Panama, including southern tip of Baja California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995); Gulf of California (Bizzarro et al. 2009); Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); Colombia (Mejía-Falla et al. 2007) and Peru (Cornejo et al. 2015). Oceanic; depth: surface to at least 300 m (984 ft) or more (Weigman 2016).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alopiidae
- Genus
- Alopias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Nakamura
- Species
- pelagicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Hanan, D. A., Holts, D. B. & Coan Jr, A. L. (1993) The California drift gill net fishery for sharks and swordfish, 1981 - 82 through 1990 - 91. California Fish and Game, Fish Bull. 175.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Bizzarro, J. J. & Vaughn, M. T. (2009) Aspects of the biology and species composition of skates (Rajiformes) from insular waters of southeastern Alaska. Northwestern Naturalist, 90, 247 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 08 - 44.1
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Cornejo, R., Velez-Zuazo, X., Gonzalez-Pestana, A., Kouri J., C. & Mucientes, G. (2015) An updated checklist of Chondrichthyes from the southeast Pacific off Peru. CheckList, 11, 1809. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 11.6.1809