Alopias exigua (Probst, 1879)

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 33

Alopias exigua (Probst, 1879)

Tooth type: Tearing.

Out of the three recent species of Alopias listed in Ebert et al. (2021), the teeth of A. superciliosus (Lowe, 1840) display the strongest similarity with those of A. exigua (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948; Bass et al., 1975; Herman et al., 2004; Ebert et al., 2021). Cortés (1999) indicated cephalopods as the main food item of that species, followed by bony fishes, and established a TL of 4.2. Alopias superciliosus lives from close inshore to the open ocean, from the surface to 955 m depth, but mostly over 100 m depth (Compagno et al., 2005, Ebert et al., 2021).