Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (National) (FT)

Permanent URI for this collection

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1

First record of the pelagic thresher shark, alopsias pelagicus (Pisces: alopiiformes: alopiidae) from the Lakshadweep sea, India
(2012) Aneesh, K.V.; Paresh, K.; Pravin, P.; Meenakumari, B.; Radhakrishnan, E.V.
The pelagic thresher shark Alopias pelagicus is a large, wide-ranging Indo-Pacific Ocean pelagic shark. In this paper, the first record of the pelagic thresher shark, caught from the Lakshadweep Sea is reported. The shark 275 cm in total length was caught by drift longline operation at depth of 60 m in the Lakshadweep Sea (10852N latitude 72813E longitude).