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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...
- The pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae; this group of sharks is characterized by the greatly elongated...
- Samuel Rafinesque described Alopias macrourus from a thresher shark caught off Sicily. Later authors recognized the genus Alopias as valid, while synonymizing...
- Kimakowicz, 1933 Alopia balcanica Alopia bielzii (L.Pfeiffer, 1849) Alopia bogatensis (E.A.Bielz, 1856) Alopia canescens (Charpentier, 1852) Alopia glauca (E...
- The bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, found in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide. Like the...
- Alopias Rafinesque, 1810 Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935 (pelagic thresher) [1] Alopias superciliosus R. T. Lowe, 1841 (bigeye thresher) [2] Alopias...
- 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...
- mustelus Mustelus punctulatus Carcharias taurus Odontaspis ferox Alopias superciliosus Alopias vulpinus Cetorhinus maximus Carcharodon carcharias Isurus oxyrinchus...
- dating back to the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene period. †Alopias exiguaAlopias latidens Alopias vulpinus' †Carcharocles angustidens ' †Carcharodon hastalis'...