You can sponsor this page

Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935

Pelagic thresher
Adicionar as suas observações no Fish Watcher
Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed.
Alopias pelagicus   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS
Adicionar o seu Fotografias e vídeos
 Pictures | Videos | Imagem do Google
Image of Alopias pelagicus (Pelagic thresher)
Alopias pelagicus
Male picture by Romanov, E.V.

Malaysia country information

Common names: Pelagic thresher, Terng boi suar, Thresher shark
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Ahmad, A., A.A. Abdul Haris Hilmi, A.C. Gambang, S. Ahemad and A.R. Solahuddin (eds.), 2004
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Recorded in the study during 1999-2004; first record (Ref. 53392).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Ahmad, A., A.A. Abdul Haris Hilmi, A.C. Gambang, S. Ahemad and A.R. Solahuddin (eds.), 2004
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Renard pélagique, Zorro pelágico, Fox shark, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias) (sharks and rays) > Lamniformes (Mackerel sharks) > Alopiidae (Thresher sharks)
Etymology: Alopias: From alopex, Greek for fox, referring to the ancient vernacular “fox shark,” from its supposed cunning (ancients believed that when it took a bait, it swallowed the hook until it got to the cord, which it bit off and so escaped). (See ETYFish);  pelagicus: Pelagic, (from pelagos, Greek for sea), referring to its “living in the upper layer of the sea,” in contrast to A. profundus [=superciliosus], which Nakamura believed dwelled on the “sea-bottom”). (See ETYFish).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia


Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/1040): Too many connections in /var/www/html/includes/func_getlabel.php on line 46
Can't connect to MySQL database (fbapp). Errorcode: Too many connections