Galapagos Species Database
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Alopias vulpinus
Tiburon zorro comun
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Elasmobranchii
Order
Lamniformes
Family
Alopiidae
Genus
Alopias
Species
vulpinus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Alopecias barrae Pérez Canto, 1886, Alopecias chilensis Philippi, 1902, Alopecias longimana Philippi, 1902, Alopecias vulpes (Gmelin, 1789), Alopias caudatus Phillipps, 1932, Alopias greyi Whitley, 1937, Alopias macrourus Rafinesque, 1810, Alopias vulpes (Gmelin, 1789), Carcharias vulpes (Gmelin, 1789), Galeus vulpécula Rafinesque, 1810, Squalus alopecias Gronow, 1854, Squalus vulpes Gmelin, 1789, Squalus vulpes Berkenhout, 1789, Squalus vulpinus Bonnaterre, 1788, Vulpecula marina Garman, 1913 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Migrant
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Alopias vulpinus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24984. Accessed 5 November 2026.