Alopiidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
FAMILY

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: class
Elasmobranchii: order
Lamniformes: family
Alopiidae

Name

Homonyms: Alopiidae
Common names: requins-renards in French; thresher shark in English; thresher sharks in English; tiburones zorro in Spanish; voshaaien in Dutch; chienhai chang in Chinese; chienhai chang wei sha k’o in Chinese; dlinnokhvostye akuly in Russian; fox sharks in English; onagazame-ka in Japanese; renards in French; renards de mer in French; revehaifamilien in Nynorsk, Norwegian; revehaifamilien in Norwegian Bokmål; rävhajar in Swedish; thrashers in English; thresher sharks in English; threshers in English; zorros in Spanish; zorros in Portuguese; オナガザメ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
Branstetter, Steven / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Thresher Sharks: Family Alopiidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 34-36.
Compagno, L.J.V. (2001). Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Volume 2. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 1, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. 269p.
Compagno, Leonard J. V. / Hamlett, William C., ed., 1999: Checklist of Living Elasmobranchs. Sharks, Skates, and Rays: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes. 471-498.
Compagno, Leonard J. V., 1984: Sharks of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, no. 125, vol. 4, pt. 2.
Compagno, Leonard J. V., 2001: Sharks of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date, vol. 2: Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, no. 1, vol. 2. viii + 269.
Eschmeyer online (Jul 2012)
Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R.; van der Laan, R. (eds). (2017). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version.
Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: . Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
FishBase
Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: . Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.
WoRMS (Mar 2013)
van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374