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SpeciesLamniformesAlopiidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Common thresher

Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

El tiburón azotador, zorro marino o pez zorro (Alopias vulpinus) es una especie de elasmobranquio lamniforme de la familia Alopiidae.​ Su extraordinaria cola mide casi tanto como el resto de su cuerpo. El lóbulo inferior de la cola es pequeño, pero el superior es muy largo, arqueado y terminado en punta. Se alimenta, en solitario o en grupo, de banco de peces. Usa la cola a modo de látigo que sacude de un lado a otro para rodear o herir a sus presas. Cuando nada cerca de la superficie, a veces derriba con la cola aves marinas que vuelan bajo. La hembra pare hasta 4 crías de una sola vez; produce más embriones, pero algunas crías se comen a las otras cuando todavía están dentro de la madre.

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Also called
Common Thresher Shark, Thresher shark, tresher shark, tresher
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
348 kg
Body length
4.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Everything we know about the Common thresher

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
348 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
4.5 mrecord 5.73 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female5.49 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
25 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
4.5
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.5 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
348 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common thresher yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages
Requin-renard commun (fr), Alopias vulpinus (es), 長尾沙 (zh), Gemeiner Fuchshai (de), revehai (nb), voshaai (nl) … and 22 more languages
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