Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 15

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).