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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).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • 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