Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:255EE06E-3171-41F3-BB3D-E7D29537A292
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5982999
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/735C87F1-8A40-FFB8-9BF6-FAD659C38FE7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935
status

Treatment

Pelagic Thresher

Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935: 2 , 3, pl. 1, fig. 2. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. Type locality: Su-Ao fish market, Taiwan.

Local synonymy: White et al., 2018: 84, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: None.

Remarks: Caught as bycatch in the pelagic longline fisheries in PNG; verified by photographs, with accompanying muscle and vertebral samples, from fisheries observers. Records of Alopias vulpinus ( Bonnaterre, 1788) from PNG waters are most likely misidentifications of this species.