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Alopias vulpinus
Description
Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788).
Common Thresher Shark or Thresher Shark. To at least 5.73 m (18.8 ft) (Weigmann 2016), and possibly to 6.36 m (20.9 ft) TL (Ebert 2003). Circumglobal in warm waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkaido Island, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); west of Yakobi I., south-eastern Alaska (Bruce Wing, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Gulf of California (Smith et al. 2009). Coastal and oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 650 m (2,132 ft) (Weigmann 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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alopiidae
- Genus
- Alopias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonnaterre
- Species
- vulpinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) 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
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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.
- Smith, W. D., Bizzarro, J. J. & Cailliet, G. M. (2009) The artisanal elasmobranch fishery of Baja California, Mexico: characteristics and management considerations. Ciencias Marinas, 35, 209 - 236. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 35 i 2.1534