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Alopias vulpes
Thrasher Thrash"er, Thresher Thresh"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage. Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

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- thresher) †Alopias acutidens Casier, 1958 †Alopias alabamensis White, 1956 †Alopias carolinensis White, 1956 †Alopias crochardi Ward, 1978 †Alopias denticulatus...
- Samuel Rafinesque described Alopias macrourus from a thresher shark caught off Sicily. Later authors recognized the genus Alopias as valid, while synonymizing...
- The pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae; this group of sharks is characterized by the greatly elongated...
- and A. latidens carolinensis. Leriche, Leriche. "Alopias latidens". Shark-References. 1909. White, Leriche. "Alopias latidens". PBDB. 1909-1956. v t e...
- Alopias subexigua is extinct species of thresher shark, that lived in the Eocene to Miocene. It is known only from teeth. Alopias subexigua was discovered...
- The bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, found in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide. Like the...
- Alopias grandis is a species of giant thresher shark from the Miocene. Estimates calculated from teeth comparisons suggest the living animal was comparable...
- Alopias palatasi, commonly referred to as the serrated giant thresher, is an extinct species of giant thresher shark that lived approximately 20.44 to...
- Species: Alopia alpina R.Kimakowicz, 1933 Alopia bielzii (L.Pfeiffer, 1849) Alopia bogatensis (E.A.Bielz, 1856) Alopia canescens (Charpentier, 1852) Alopia glauca...
- Alopias Rafinesque, 1810 Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935 (pelagic thresher) [1] Alopias superciliosus R. T. Lowe, 1841 (bigeye thresher) [2] Alopias...