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Alopias superciliosus
Description
Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1841).
Bigeye Thresher. To 4.84 m (15.9 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016); unsubstantiated reports to 5.5 m (18 ft) TL (Compagno in Carpenter 2003). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Cape Mendocino, northern California (Preti et al. 2008) to Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); Colombia to Chile (Ebert 2016). Depth: surface to 955 m (3,132 ft) (Coelho et al. 2015).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alopiidae
- Genus
- Alopias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowe
- Species
- superciliosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1841) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.). (2003) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1. Mollusca, Crustacea, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras. Volume 2. Bony Fishes Part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). Volume 3. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication, No. 5. FAO, Rome. [Date on cover is 2002, but publication date is 2003.]
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Preti, A., Kohin, S., Dewar, H. & Ramon, D. (2008) Feeding habits of the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) sampled from the California-based gillnet fishery. CalCOFI Reports, 49, 202 - 211.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Ebert, D. A. (2016) Deep-sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, No. 10. Rome, FAO.
- Coelho, R., Fernandez-Carvalho, J. & Santos, M. N. (2015) Habitat use and diel vertical migration of bigeye thresher shark: overlap with pelagic longline fishing gear. Marine Environmental Research, 112, 91 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. marenvres. 2015.10.009