Alopiidae

Moore, Alec B. M., Ward, Robert D. & Peirce, Richard, 2012, Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), Zootaxa 3167, pp. 1-16 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279779
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696806
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA87F1-FFFC-FF9E-B1B1-7AC0C6B4EC33
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Alopiidae
status

Treatment

Alopiidae View in CoL View at ENA (Thresher sharks)

No confirmed Gulf records. Goubanov & Shleib (1980) reported thresher shark Alopias vulpinus ( Bonnaterre, 1788) as “very seldom seen in the Gulf, only in its southern areas”, although Randall (1996) regarded this as doubtful. Bigeye thresher A. superciliosus ( Lowe, 1841) was regarded by Compagno et al. (2005) as possibly occurring in the Gulf, and both this species and the pelagic thresher A. pelagicus Nakamura, 1935 are known from Oman ( Henderson et al. 2007).