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Alopias pelagicus, Pelagic thresher : fisheries, gamefish

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Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935

Pelagic thresher
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Ecuador country information

Common names: Zorro de mar
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Béarez, P., 1996
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Common names from other countries

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

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranquios (tiburones y rayas) (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 Ecología

marino; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); rango de profundidad 0 - 300 m (Ref. 106604), usually 0 - 150 m (Ref. 55167).   Tropical; 40°N - 42°S, 16°E - 70°W (Ref. 54277)

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