Common names:
Sapan, Sapan balığı, Sapan köpekbalığı
Occurrence:
native
Salinity:
brackish
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Uses:
no uses
Comments:
Known from Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea and its watersheds, Mediterranean Sea, European Black Sea watersheds, European Mediterranean Sea watersheds, Anatolian Mediterranean Sea watersheds, Anatolian Black Sea watersheds and Asi Nehri/Orontes watershed. Threatened due to overfishing. Highly migratory species, listed on Annex I of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (Ref. 58342).
Also Ref. 247.
Status of threat: Endangered (Ref. 58342).
National Checklist:
Country Information:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences:
OccurrencesPoint map
Main Ref:
Bilecenoğlu, M., Taskavak E., S. Mater and M. Kaya, 2002
National Database:
CLOMFOT
Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Lamniformes (Mackerel sharks) > Alopiidae (Thresher sharks)
Etymology: Alopias:From alopex, Greek for fox, referring to the ancient vernacular “fox shark,” from its supposed cunning (ancients believed that when it took a bait, it swallowed the hook until it got to the cord, which it bit off and so escaped). (See ETYFish); vulpinus:Latin for fox-like (as for genus). (See ETYFish). More on author: Bonnaterre.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 650 m (Ref. 106604), usually 0 - 200 m (Ref. 55168). Subtropical; 74°N - 58°S, 180°W - 180°E (Ref. 54279)
Distribution
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