Alopias pelagicus Nakamura 1935
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Lamniformes
- family
- Alopiidae
- genus
- Alopias
- species
- Alopias pelagicus
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Alopias pelagicus Nakamura 1935