THRESHER SHARK ATTACKS
The Common Thresher Shark is not aggressive, but can be provoked. The thresher's large tail can injure divers.
SPEED AND SWIMMING
The Common Thresher Shark a very strong swimmer and can even leap out of the water.
Thresher Shark
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
long-tailed, warm-water shark, genus Alopias. The upper fork of its tail is slender and sickle-shaped and is about equal in length to the rest of the body.
Thresher sharks inhabit warm and temperate waters worldwide. Threshers prefer cool pelagic waters but will wander into coastal areas as well in pursuit of fish.
Juvenile threshers are often found close inshore and in shallow bays.
The Family "Thresher sharks"
This is an unmistakable family as all species possess huge tails as long as the trunks. This large tail is used to herd schooling fish and then stun them with a whip of their tails.
Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Thresher sharks are distinguished by the long upper lobe of the caudal fin, which can reach up to 3.3 m (11 ft.) in length. The shark will use this part of the fin to strike whip-like blows at its prey.
Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Round ribbontail ray (Taeniura meyeni)
Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus)
Japanese electric ray (Narke japonica) ...
Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) caught in gill net, Gulf of California, Mexico.
Specialised shop selling sharks' fins, Beijing, China.
What is WWF doing?
5. Thresher Shark, Alopias vulpinus - up to 25' long, hangs out in the open sea. Feeds on schooling fishes such as herring and anchovies, can use their tail to stun prey.
Alopias
(Thresher sharks)
Pelagic thresher (A. pelagicus) Â- Bigeye thresher (A. superciliosus) Â- Common thresher (A. vulpinus)
Cetorhinidae ...
Scanning electron micrograph of the scales of a Thresher Shark
Scanning electron micrograph of the scales of a Tiger Shark
Scanning electron micrograph of the scales of a White Shark
Scanning electron micrograph of Whale Shark scales.
Hygienic sharks go to cleaners Thresher sharks visit cleaning stations on shallow tropical reefs to rid themselves of nasty parasites, say researchers.
Sawsharks have elongated snouts, Thresher sharks have a tremendously elongated upper tail fin which they use to stun prey and Hammerheads have extraordinarily wide heads.
LAMNIFORMES
sand tiger sharks, goblin sharks, crocodile sharks, mackerel sharks, megamouth sharks, basking sharks, thresher sharks
GREAT WHITE SHARK ...
has a large mouth with small teeth, a broad rounded snout (observers have mistaken it for a young orca), a generally brownish-blackish color on top and white underneath, and an asymmetrical tail with a long upper lobe, similar to the Thresher Shark.
Some sharks sense light directly through the skull by the pineal body.
The thresher shark has an eye up to 5 inches (12.5 cm) in diameter.
The last three facts are from D.Perrine, Sharks and Rays of the World, Stillwater: Voyaguer Press, 1999.
 See also: Shark, Whale, Whale Shark, Ray, Elasmobranch
  
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