Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) .

Common Thresher Shark or Thresher Shark. To at least 5.73 m (18.8 ft) (Weigmann 2016), and possibly to 6.36 m (20.9 ft) TL (Ebert 2003). Circumglobal in warm waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkaido Island, Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); west of Yakobi I., south-eastern Alaska (Bruce Wing, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Gulf of California (Smith et al. 2009). Coastal and oceanic epipelagic; depth: surface to 650 m (2,132 ft) (Weigmann 2016).