Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre 1788)
- 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 vulpinus
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre 1788)