Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.2478/cjf-2023-0020

NOTE ON A JUVENILE COMMON THRESHER SHARK Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre 1788) IN THE WATERS OF SLOVENIA (NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA)

Lovrenc Lipej ; Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, Slovenia
Leon L. Zamuda ; Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, Slovenia
Borut Mavrič ; Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, Slovenia

Abstract

A specimen of common thresher shark Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre 1788) was caught in a fishing net in the waters off Piran (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic Sea). It was a juvenile male with a total length of 2841 mm. In recent decades, other cases of juvenile specimens of common thresher shark have been recorded in Slovenian coastal waters. Despite the drastic decline in the population of this species, thresher shark continues to be caught in local Adriatic fisheries.

Keywords

common thresher shark; morphometrics; record; Gulf of Trieste

Hrčak ID:

309823

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/309823

Publication date:

1.12.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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