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SpeciesLamniformesAlopiidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Common thresher

Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

כְּרִישׁוּעָל זְנַבְתָּן (שם מדעי: Alopias vulpinus) הוא מין כריש שאורכו הממוצע (כולל זנב) בין 3 ל-6 מטרים, ומשקלו עד 510 ק"ג. זנבו ארוך במיוחד ויכול להגיע לאורכו של גוף הכריש. מכאן גם נגזר שמו. הכריש חי במים עליונים בעיקר בים הפתוח, ונזון מלהקות דגים קטנים ודיונונים אותם הוא ממית בעזרת זנבו. הכריש אינו מזיק לצוללים ונחשב לאחד הכרישים היפים ביותר לצפייה תוך כדי צלילה. הכריש פגיע והוא מוגן בכל העולם. הכריש שועל הוא אחד ממיני הכרישים המוצגים בבריכת הכרישים בפארק המצפה התת-ימי באילת.

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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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Facts and figures

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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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderLamniformes
  5. ›familyAlopiidae
  6. ›genusAlopias
  7. ›speciesAlopias vulpinus
Full lineage
  1. superclassGnathostomata
  2. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  3. subclassElasmobranchii
  4. orderLamniformes
All 8 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. orderLamniformes
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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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