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Scientific Name Alopias superciliosus  (Lowe, 1841)
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Type Locality Madeira, Northeastern Atlantic.
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Size 4880mm or 192.1" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp.
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Distribution Circumtropical. Western Atlantic: New York, USA southward to Bahamas and Cuba; Panama to Uruguay. Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to Angola, including the Mediterranean. Indo-Pacific: Arabian Sea, Madagascar, South Africa, southern Japan, Taiwan, northern Viet Nam, New Caledonia, northwestern coast of Australia, New Zealand and north and south of the Hawaiian Islands Eastern Pacific: southern California (USA), Costa Rica and Panama, Galapagos Islands Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea.
IUCN Red List Category Vulnerable, range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2018.
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Breeding Reports There is no breeding report.
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Reference Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840 (pt. 8, no. 89), pp 39.
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Last Update 2022 May 21 02:09 (species record created: 2021 Dec 26 04:28)