Long-tailed thresher shark
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Lamniformes Family: Alopiidae Genus: Alopias Species: A. vulpinus
Binomial name
Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

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The long-tailed thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, is a thresher shark inhabiting tropical and temperate waters worldwide. Like all thresher sharks, it has a very long upper lobe of the caudal fin, sometimes as long as the body. Its body is brown or grey with a white underside. They can grow to about 25 ft in length and 750 lb. Thresher sharks often hunt in groups or pairs, stunning their prey with their tails before feeding on it. They mostly eat other fish and squid, but have been known to kill seabirds as well. Thintail thresher (Alopias vulpinus) from NOAA. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn3. ... This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Digimon, the only known animals. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Subclasses and Orders See text. ... Superorders Galeomorpha Batoidea Selachimorpha Elasmobranchii is the subclass of cartilaginous fishes that includes skates, rays and sharks. ... Families Odontaspididae (sand tigers) Mitsukurinidae (goblin shark) Pseudocarchariidae (crocodile shark) Megachasmidae (megamouth shark) Alopiidae (thresher sharks) Cetorhinidae (basking shark) Lamnidae (mackerel sharks) Great Lamniformes is an order of sharks commonly known as the mackerel sharks. ... Species Alopias pelagicus Alopias superciliosus Alopias vulpinus Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae. ... Species For species see text. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747 - September 20, 1804) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on birds and fish to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Greyreefsharksmall2. ... Species For species see text. ... Fish anatomy is primarily governed by the physical characteristics of water, which is much denser than air, holds a relatively small amount of dissolved oxygen, and absorbs light more than does air. ... Suborders Myopsina Oegopsina Squid are a large, diverse group of marine cephalopods. ... Seabirds are birds that spend much of their lives, outside the breeding season at least, at sea. ...

Thresher sharks are highly migratory, moving northward in the spring in order to breed. They are oviparous and litters contain two to six pups, born five feet long. Migration occurs when living things move from one biome to another. ...

Long-tailed thresher sharks are consumed as a food fish in many countries and prized as a game fish. Their hides are used for leather. They are not considered dangerous to humans, but are considered a nuisance to mackerel fishermen, due to their propensity to become tangled in fishing nets. Fully grown threshers have no known predators other than humans. Modern leather-working tools Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides and skins of animals, primarily cattlehide. ... Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae. ...

Other common names for long-tailed thresher sharks include "thintail thresher", "common thresher", "fox shark", "sea fox", "swiveltail", "spindletail", and "thrasher".

References

• "Alopias vulpinus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 06 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
• Alopias vulpinus (TSN 159916). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 16 June 2006.
• Goldman, K.J. & members of the Shark Specialist Group (2002). Alopias vulpinus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 16 June 2006.

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External links

• Flordia Museum of Natural History biological profile
• Marinebio.org fact sheet
• Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS) species fact sheet
• Southwest Fisheries Science Center fact sheet