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Scientific Name | Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) |
Common Name | |
Type Locality | Mediterranean Sea; Cornwall, England, northeastern Atlantic. |
Species Information | |
Size | 7600mm or 299.2" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
Habitat Information | |
Distribution | Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas. Western Atlantic: Newfoundland, Canada to Cuba, Gulf of Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil to Argentina. Eastern Atlantic: Norway and British Isles to the Mediterranean, Morocco, Ghana and Côte d"Ivoire; also Cape Province, South Africa. Indo-Pacific: scattered localities from the Gulf of Aden and East Africa to the Hawaiian, Society and Fanning islands. Eastern Pacific: Canada to Chile. Population considered reduced (R) in the US Atlantic waters; lower risk/conservation dependent (LR/CD) in US Pacific waters; data deficient (DD) in the rest of Atlantic and rest of Pacific. 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. |
Husbandry Information | |
Breeding Reports | There is no breeding report. |
Further Information | |
Reference | Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie, pp 9, Pl. 85 (fig. 349). |
Registered Keepers | There is no registered keeper. |
Wishlists | Love this species? Click the heart to add it to your wish list. There is no wish to keep this species. |
Spotters | Spotted this species somewhere? Click the binoculars! There is no record of this fish being seen. |
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Last Update | 2022 May 21 01:52 (species record created: 2021 Dec 26 04:28) |