🦋 Family

Alopiidae

2 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Elasmobranchii › Lamniformes › Alopiidae

Alopias pelagicus, the pelagic thresher, is the smallest thresher shark, found in the open Indo-Pacific ocean with documented cleaning behavior.

Alopias vulpinus (the common thresher) is the largest thresher shark species found in global tropical and cold-temperate waters.

Related Families

Lamnidae 4 species Cetorhinidae 1 species Odontaspididae 1 species

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