Alopias vulpinus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Lamniformes; Alopiidae; Alopias; Alopias vulpinus; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818587; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF9FFFBB98EAFD7DFB4E335B

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). 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