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Alopiidae
sea ape
Alopias vulpinus
Nearly six meters trailing its signature giant tail
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Cross-climate
Marine fish
Fusiform
Largesea ape is a marine fish of Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 573 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Mackerel Sharks
- Family
- Alopiidae
- Genus
- Alopias
- Maximum length
- 573 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical seas (Ref. 6871 , 58085 ). Population considered reduced (R) in the US Atlantic waters; lower risk/conservation dependent (LR/CD) in US Pacific waters; data deficient (DD) in the rest of Atlantic and rest of Pacific (Ref. 12451 ). Highly migratory species.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
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Family
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