Species: Alopias vulpinus, Thin tail thresher shark, Thintail thresher

eye small
nape: no groove

Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Thin tail thresher shark
Body stout, cylindrical; head short, rounded between eyes; forehead profile convex; no groove on nape; snout short, conical; eyes small, mouth small, ventral; teeth sharply triangular; gill openings - 5, short, last 2 over pectoral base; first dorsal large, nearer pectoral than pelvic; second dorsal and anal very small; pectorals very long, narrow, curved, with pointed tip; pelvics large; tail not lunate, upper lobe extremely long, ~ equal to body length, small lobe at tip of long lobe about 2x length of 2nd dorsal fin base; no keels on tail base.
Back and under snout brown, grey, blue or blackish; belly abruptly white, this color extending onto flank above pectoral fin; pectoral fin tip with white dot.
Size: 575 cm, possibly 635 cm; to 38 years.
Habitat: oceanic, pelagic.
Depth: 0-650 m.
Circumtropical in tropical to cold-temporate waters; Nova Scotia to Uruguay

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Offshore Only
- Offshore
- Water Column Position
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- Water column only
- Mid Water
- Near Surface
- Surface
- Habitat
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- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Pelagic crustacea
- Sea snakes/mammals/turtles/birds
- Sharks/rays
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- No pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends N + S of GC
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends North of GC
- Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- All species..
- Also in Brazil
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Vulnerable
- Listed
- CITES
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- Listed
- Appendix II
- Length Max
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- 575
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 650